Abstract
This paper aims at disclosing the influence of computer hypermedia annotations on the incidental vocabulary acquisition of Chinese students in English reading. Firstly, the author defines and explains the basic concepts, and summarizes the development trend of English reading vocabulary teaching. Through several experimental cases, the author discusses the effect of different annotation modes, ranging from English mode, Chinese mode, image mode, no-image mode, to the combination of texts and images, on the students’ incidental acquisition of English vocabularies, and analyzes the test results of the experimental cases in light of the characteristics of long-term memory. According to the empirical results, the combination of Chinese annotations and images has better effect than other modes, and plays a positive role in promoting students’ incidental vocabulary acquisition.
Highlights
The proliferation of computer and development of network technology have given birth to a series powerful technology tools that display hypermedia annotations in different forms and different places in the text
This paper studies and analyzes the application of computer hypermedia technology in English reading annotations
It elaborates on the concepts of incidental acquisition, annotations and hypermedia, and carries out an experiment to test the levels of students’ incidental vocabulary acquisition in different modes
Summary
The proliferation of computer and development of network technology have given birth to a series powerful technology tools that display hypermedia annotations in different forms (e.g. text, audio, image, and video) and different places in the text. The annotations of second language learning have been extensively studied in foreign countries. Domestic scholars have just begun to study computer-aided hypermedia annotations. It is widely believed that computer-assisted learning has a positive effect, almost no one has studied the specific effects of incidental vocabulary acquisition in reading [2]. In view of the situation and the importance of vocabulary in English learning, it is of great necessity to make iJET ‒ Vol 12, No 8, 2017
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