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Integrating Foreign Language Vocabulary Research into the Curriculum: Extensive Video Viewing in the University Classroom

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Experimental research, if incorporated into any regular course, can result in intrusive practice. One way to prevent this is blending research tests into the regular curricular activities and exploiting them pedagogically. This chapter aims to explain how the data collection for a research project on vocabulary learning through extensive viewing was integrated into the English language subject of the Media Studies degree. The core of the research experiment consisted of watching eight episodes of I Love Lucy (Oppenheimer and Arnaz, 1951), and then completing vocabulary-related activities. The research design required the administration of pre- and post-vocabulary tests, a set of cognitive and proficiency measures administered only at the beginning of the project, along with a survey on viewing habits. Several instances of metacognitive reflection on students’ performance on questionnaires and tests were integrated into the students’ e-portfolio for the subject, including a reflection on their foreign language progress, and how it could relate to their in-class viewing experience and their viewing habits at home. Results suggest that vocabulary learning took place, although watching the episodes did not result in greater vocabulary gains. The students’ reflections showed that the integration of the episodes and tests in the reflective e-portfolio was successful and that they were eye-openers as to their actual foreign language learning experience through extensive video viewing.

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  1. Facultat d’Educació, Universitat de Barcelona, Pg. Vall d’Hebron, 171, 08035, Barcelona, Spain

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  2. Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007, Barcelona, Spain

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Suárez, M.d.M., Gesa, F. (2022). Integrating Foreign Language Vocabulary Research into the Curriculum: Extensive Video Viewing in the University Classroom. In: McCallum, L. (eds) English Language Teaching. English Language Teaching: Theory, Research and Pedagogy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2152-0_13

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