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Acquisition of collocations under different glossing modalities and the mediating role of learners’ perceptual learning style

  • Xin Yuan ORCID logo EMAIL logo and Xuan Tang
Published/Copyright: March 29, 2024
International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
From the journal International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching Volume 63 Issue 4

Abstract

The current study investigated how different glossing modalities (textual and auditory) and learners’ perceptual learning style (visual and auditory) influenced collocation learning. A total of 212 college students in China were first assigned to either a visual or auditory group based on their performance on a perceptual learning style questionnaire. Each style group was subsequently subdivided into three groups who were exposed to a series of reading texts containing 15 unknown collocations under one of the glossing conditions: textual glosses, auditory glosses or no glosses (control). Results of the study indicated that both textual, and that auditory glosses led to gains in productive and receptive collocation knowledge and auditory glosses were more effective than textual glosses. In addition, this study provided empirical evidence that perceptual learning style has a moderating effect on collocational learning. The auditory learners in the auditory glossing condition showed the highest rate of collocational learning among all treatment subgroups.

Keywords: auditory glosses; textual glosses; perceptual learning style; collocation learning
Corresponding author: Xin Yuan, School of Foreign Languages, Changsha University, 98 Hongshan Road, Kaifu district, Changsha City, Hunan Province, 410002, China, E-mail:

  1. Research ethics: Not applicable.

  2. Author contributions: The authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission. The first author contributes to Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Investigation, Writing-Original Draft. The second author contributes to data analysis.

  3. Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Research funding: None declared.

  5. Data availability: The raw data can be obtained on request from the corresponding author.

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Received: 2023-12-13
Accepted: 2024-03-17
Published Online: 2024-03-29
Published in Print: 2025-11-25

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Keywords for this article
auditory glosses; textual glosses; perceptual learning style; collocation learning

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