Comparing the Effectiveness of Direct Vocabulary Instruction and Incidental Vocabulary Learning in Improving the Academic Vocabulary of Malaysian Tertiary Students.

This study compared the effectiveness of incidental vocabulary acquisition and using direct vocabulary instruction to improve tertiary students' academic vocabulary. Research has shown that Malaysian tertiary students lack exposure to academic vocabulary prior to their tertiary education and that th...

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Publicado en:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities Vol. 28; no. S2; pp. 263 - 280
Autores principales: Angelina Wan Lin Tan, Lay Huah Goh
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Universiti Putra Malaysia 2020
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          Angelina Wan Lin Tan
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          Department of Social Science, Tunku Abdul Rahman University College, Penang Branch Campus, 11200 Tanjung Bungah, Penang, Malaysia
          Faculty of Education and Languages, HELP University, 50490 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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        Vocabulary education in universities & colleges
        Higher education
        Gamification
        Video games in education
        Vocabulary ability testing
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          Vocabulary education in universities & colleges
          Higher education
          Gamification
          Video games in education
          Vocabulary ability testing
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        Academic vocabulary
        direct vocabulary instruction
        gamification
        Kahoot!
        Malaysian tertiary students
      ab: This study compared the effectiveness of incidental vocabulary acquisition and using direct vocabulary instruction to improve tertiary students' academic vocabulary. Research has shown that Malaysian tertiary students lack exposure to academic vocabulary prior to their tertiary education and that they have an insufficient vocabulary size for tertiary education. Hence, this study explored the feasibility of providing direct vocabulary instruction with gamification through an intervention programme which the researcher named the Accelerated Vocabulary Acquisition (AVA) programme as a method to improve tertiary students' academic vocabulary. Marzano's three-phase framework for vocabulary instruction was adapted and gamification was incorporated through the use of the gaming platform Kahoot!. This study used a quantitative approach and adopted the non-randomized control group, pretest-posttest design. The participants were 180 tertiary students studying for their diploma in various fields. The academic section of the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT) by Schmitt et al. was used to measure the students' academic vocabulary. The results showed that the AVA programme is a feasible framework to improve tertiary students' academic vocabulary as tertiary students who underwent the AVA programme outperformed the students in the control group who learnt academic vocabulary incidentally.
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