Receptive and productive vocabulary acquisition: effectiveness of three types of tasks. Results from French students of Spanish

This study presents the results of research on the vocabulary acquisition of French students of Spanish as second language. The aim is to know (1) which of these three vocabulary-learning tasks is more effective: definition-choosing, gap-filling or sentence-writing; and (2) which kind of knowledge,...

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Autores: San Mateo Valdehíta, Alicia, Criado de Diego, Cecilia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Repositorio:e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNED
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/23834
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/23834
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:55 Historia::5505 Ciencias auxiliares de la historia::5505.10 Filología
Vocabulary learning
receptive and productive vocabulary
receptive and productive tasks
Spanish as second language
Involvement Load Hypothesis
Technique Feature Analysis
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Sumario:This study presents the results of research on the vocabulary acquisition of French students of Spanish as second language. The aim is to know (1) which of these three vocabulary-learning tasks is more effective: definition-choosing, gap-filling or sentence-writing; and (2) which kind of knowledge, receptive or productive, the participants acquire with each vocabulary-learning task. The analysis shows that the most effective task is sentence-writing, then gap-filling and, in the third place, definition-choosing. Also all the three learning tasks trained students to complete above all activities which require a receptive knowledge of the words—definition-choosing and gap-filling tasks—, but they were much less prepared to carry out the sentence-writing task, which requires a productive knowledge of the words. The only productive task proposed—sentence-writing—is the one that allowed the students to learn receptively and productively a higher number of words. We associate our results with the Involvement Load Hypothesis and Technique Feature Analysis.