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延安大学外国语学院
An Empirical Study of the Effects of Output Hypothesis on Incidental
Vocabulary Acquisition
By Chen Jingjing
Supervised by Associate Professor Liu Baining
School of Foreign languages,
Yan’an University

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Why ?
How ?
What?
The Outline of Presentation
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The Outline of My Thesis
1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
3. Research Methodology
4. Results and Discussions
5. Conclusion
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Research Orientation:
Why do I choose the theme for my study?
It is a controversial issue whether output is the result of acquisition or the cause of acquisition and whether output process is related to learning process.
It is quite natural that many L2 teachers feel uncertain about how to guide their students. Should they require their students to learn words intentional learning is not conducive to language learning?
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Research Questions
Q1:
Q2:
Q3:
Do output tasks facilitate the acquisition of new words? What conditions cause acquisition of new words in output tasks?
As the acquisition of new words, do learners of output tasks perform better than learners prehension tasks?
What is the difference between learners of output tasks and learners prehension tasks towards the new words’ retention?
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Theories Related to This Study
Related Theories
Output Hypothesis
Information Processing Model
Involvement Load Hypothesis
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How?
Research Design
Subjects
Instruments
Procedures
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Procedures
Group
Pilot Study
Treatment
Immediate Posttest
Delayed Posttest
Control (n=51)
Pilot Study
Immediate Posttest
Delayed Posttest
Comprehension
task (n=48)
Pilot Study
True or false
task
Immediate Posttest
Delayed Posttest
Production task
(n=49)
Pilot Study
Text
reconstruction
task
Immediate Posttest
Delayed Posttest
Table Design of Experiment
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What?
Results of Experiment
Pretest
Immediate Test
Delayed Test
Comparison
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Pretest
Group
Me