• Login
    View Item 
    •   Research Bank Home
    • Study Areas
    • Education
    • Education Journal Articles
    • View Item
    •   Research Bank Home
    • Study Areas
    • Education
    • Education Journal Articles
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    The effects of aural input enhancement on L2 acquisition

    Reinders, Hayo; Cho, Meiyoung

    Thumbnail
    Share
    View fulltext online
    book chapter - 2013 - Cho and Reinders Input Enhancement.pdf (601.9Kb)
    Date
    2013-07
    Citation:
    Cho, M., & Reinders, R. (2013). The effects of aural input enhancement on L2 acquisition. In J. M. Bergsleithner, S.N. Frota, & J. K. Yoshioka, (Eds.), Noticing and second language acquisition : studies in honor of Richard Schmidt (pp. 133–148). Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i, National Foreign Language Resource Center. Preprint. NOTE: This is research undertaken for the Anaheim University, United States prior to the author being affiliated with the Unitec Institute of Technology.
    Permanent link to Research Bank record:
    https://hdl.handle.net/10652/2393
    Abstract
    Input enhancement involves attempts to direct the learner’s attention to specific linguistic forms in target language input (Sharwood Smith, 1993). One way to do this is by manipulating the input in order to attract learners’ attention to the target feature, for example, by underlining or bolding it or by artificially increasing its frequency in the input (an input flood). A number of studies have investigated the effects of enriched input (e.g., Jourdenais, Ota, Stauffer, Boyson, & Doughty, 1995; Reinders & Ellis, 2009; Trahey & White, 1993; White, 1998). Although there is some evidence that enriched input can affect L2 acquisition of certain grammatical features, the results are not conclusive. Furthermore, previous studies have been limited to textual input enrichment. In this chapter we investigated the effects of aural input enhancement, a type of input enhancement that to the best of our knowledge has not been reported on before. Participants in the study were given an audiobook to listen to outside of class in which passive structures had been manipulated by 1) artificially increasing the volume slightly of the target items or by 2) slowing down the speed with which the target items were read out. A control group listened to the audiobooks in their original form. The repeated-measures ANOVA analysis showed no significant effect for the manipulated input on acquiring the target form. We discuss some possible reasons for this finding.
    Keywords:
    second language acquisition (SLA), L2 acquistion, aural input enhancement
    ANZSRC Field of Research:
    200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
    Copyright Holder:
    University of Hawai‘i, National Foreign Language Resource Center.
    Rights:
    This digital work is protected by copyright. It may be consulted by you, provided you comply with the provisions of the Act and the following conditions of use: Any use you make of these documents or images must be for research or private study purposes only, and you may not make them available to any other person. You will recognise the author's and publishers rights and give due acknowledgement where appropriate.
    Metadata
    Show detailed record
    This item appears in
    • Education Journal Articles [233]

    Library home
    Send Feedback
    Research publications
    Unitec
    Moodle
    © Unitec Institute of Technology, Private Bag 92025, Victoria Street West, Auckland 1142
     

     

    Usage

    Downloads, last 12 months
    24
     
     

    Usage Statistics

    For this itemFor the Research Bank

    Share

    About

    About Research BankResearch at UnitecContact us

    Help for authors  

    How to add researchOpen Access GuideVersions Toolkit

    Register for updates  

    LoginRegister

    Browse Research Bank  

    EverywhereAcademic study areasAuthorDateSubjectTitleType of researchSupervisorThis CollectionAuthorDateSubjectTitleType of researchSupervisor

    Library home
    Send Feedback
    Research publications
    Unitec
    Moodle
    © Unitec Institute of Technology, Private Bag 92025, Victoria Street West, Auckland 1142