The Sequencing of Pre- and Post-viewing Activities in a Vocabulary Learning Study with Adolescent French L2 Learners
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- Suter, Lea ORCID University of Fribourg
- Berthele, Raphael ORCID University of Fribourg
- Thomas, Anita ORCID University of Fribourg
- 2025
Published in:
- Educational Linguistics / Anastasia Pattemore ; Ferran Gesa. - Springer Nature Switzerland. - 2025, vol. 66, p. 69-92
English
This study investigates the effect of presence and sequence of viewing activities on the learning of new words in French L2. It examined if there is a difference in perceived usefulness of pre- vs. post-viewing activity (RQ1) and whether the perceived usefulness corresponds to students’ vocabulary scores (RQ2). Eighty-seven adolescent, beginner French L2 students from Switzerland participated in the study. Fifty-one target words were selected from three captioned 13-15 minute excerpts from the French TV series Plan Cœur (Netflix, 2018). The participants watched each excerpt in a different condition (episode only, episode and pre-viewing activity, episode and post-viewing activity). In the activities, the participants had to recognise the correct meaning (translation) of target words. Three immediate and one delayed meaning recognition vocabulary post-tests were administered to four upper-level classes (HI) and two lower-level classes (LO). Students’ learning beliefs were collected using a self-evaluation questionnaire. Results from the questionnaire showed that both LO and HI learners perceived the post-viewing activity as most beneficial. The descriptive analysis of the questionnaire further supported that learners’ beliefs concerning the usefulness of the pre-/post-viewing activities generally correspond to learners’ actual learning gains. These results highlight the importance of pre-/post-viewing activities when learning new vocabulary through audio-visual input in foreign language teaching.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences de l'éducation et de la formation
- Department
- Département de formation à l’enseignement
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Arts, Human and Social Science
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- Open access status
- green
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-91001-2_4
- ISSN 1572-0292
- ISBN 9783031910005
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/334765
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