Čitanje, usvajanje vokabulara i strateško ponašanje učenika stranog jezika
Reading, Vocabulary Acquisition and Strategic Behavior of Foreign Language Learners

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study was to examine incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading, perceived use of reading strategies (in the form of lexical inferencing strategies), and to examine the relationship between the two variables. Participants were adolescent learners of French as a foreign language in several high-schools in Zagreb. The instruments included an authentic reading material in French, incidental vocabulary acquisition test administered at three different occasions, as well as strategy use questionnaire developed for the purpose of the study. The results suggest that adolescent learners can acquire vocabulary incidentally through reading, and that some portion of the acquired lexical items stays in their long-term memory. The study subjects used the global lexical inferencing strategies somewhat more frequently than the local ones. The data also suggest that there is a weak positive correlation between the strategy use and the number of incidentally acquired lexical items immediately after reading. There is no statistically significant correlation between the strategy use and the number of lexical items acquired on the basis of lexical inferencing, or a month after the treatment.

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