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Article: VISIBLE OR INVISIBLE LINKS: DOES THE HIGHLIGHTING OF HYPERLINKS AFFECT INCIDENTAL VOCABULARY LEARNING, TEXT COMPREHENSION, AND THE READING PROCESS?
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- Language, Learning & Technology
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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ABSTRACT
This article investigates how the signaling-mode of electronic glosses in online texts (i.e., presented digitally on a computer screen) influences the user's reading process, incidental vocabulary learning, and text comprehension. Indeed, does the fact that hyperlinks with dictionary definitions are visible (i.e., highlighted) or invisible affect the foreign language learner's look-up behaviour and as a consequence the possible learning outcome? Furthermore, the article addresses the question whether the type of reading task (general vs. specific) affects the learner's use of these links and the amount and quality of the language learned. The article ...
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