Publications

Publication details [#53869]

Bürki, Andreas. 2010. Lexis that rings a bell: on the influence of auditory support in vocabulary acquisition. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 20 (2) : 206–231.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience | foreign language acquisition | pronunciation | university | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This study, involving 88 Korean university students, confirms that audio-supported (foreign language) vocabulary acquisition leads to significantly higher acquisition rates, and especially better pronunciation.