The purpose of this study was to find out the effects of the collocation glosses on the incidental learning of Korean collocation. In this study, glosses were chosen as a way to learn collocation which is one of the vocabulary categories. It is to be ...
The purpose of this study was to find out the effects of the collocation glosses on the incidental learning of Korean collocation. In this study, glosses were chosen as a way to learn collocation which is one of the vocabulary categories. It is to be considered whether it is effective on the learning of form and meaning of collocations and memory effect as well for students to be provided collocation glosses. Target vocabulary words were multiple-choice and single glosses.
The study was implemented at a language institute affiliated with a university in Chungchung Province with 45 Chinese learners. This study compared the three groups of learners.
Three groups of learners were included;
A group using multiple-choice glosses.
A group using single glosses.
A group left their own to study with no glosses and taking the first post test of a form and meaning of collocations. After one week, this independent study group was set on the second post test to check their memory effect.
Collected data were used in SPSS for Win 14.0 and depending on research questions, it went into technical statistics, one-way ANOVA or paired-samples t-test. In addition, Scheffe'’s test was used in the post evaluation.
Research questions are the below.
Question 1. Do collocation glosses take a significant effect on collocation learning?
Question 2. Which one is more effective to acquire meaning or form of collocation when learners get glosses?
Question 3. Do collocation glosses take a significant effect on memory effect of incidental collocation learning?
The following are the results of the studies I have conducted.
First, after implementing one-way ANOVA to see whether the collocation glosses influence on incidental collocation learning or not, it showed that there was a significant difference among three groups. Through Scheffe'’s test, multiple-choice glosses was more effective than singe glosses.
Second, conducting paired-samples t-test to find out which one is more effective to acquire meaning or form of collocation for learners provided glosses, it showed that both of multiple-choice and single glosses had positive effect on learning form and meaning on collocation. However, they were more effective on learning meaning of collocation.
Thirdly, to know if collocation glosses take a meaningful effect on memory effect of incidental collocation learning, one-way ANOVA and Scheffe'’s post test were conducted among three groups. Within each group, paired-samples t-test was used to check the difference between the first and the second post tests. The result indicated that there was a significant difference among groups. Besides, multiple-choice glosses were the best effective. Checking the memory effect, the entire three groups showed a significant decline. The multiple-choice glosses group showed the least decline, however. Therefore, it turned out to be the most positive effect on learners to provide the multiple-choice glosses.
After the experiment, this study shows that the multiple-choice glosses take the best effect on acquiring the form and also the meaning of collocation. Accordingly, when we make reading materials, it is recommended to use the multiple-choice glosses positively for collocation learning. Furthermore, we can see the importance of extensive reading that leads to unintentional vocabulary learning through this study.
As a conclusion, based on the results that collocation glosses have a positive effect on learning the form as well as the meaning, teaching vocabulary, it is encouraged to teach students using collocation, not individual words, and present collocation as a learning material.