How do multiple-choice glosses influence word inferencing strategies and form-meaning mapping?
• How does the input-output cycle task influence word inferencing strategies and form-meaning mapping? • What is the effect of repeated occurrence of TWs on noticing and form- meaning mapping? • How does the multiple-choice plus input-output cycle task affect receptive and productive word knowledge gain as compared to the input-output cycle task only? Method Participants The volunteer participants in this study were 14 fifth-semester L1 English learners of German at a public university in the United States. This course is the first after the completion of the language requirement and is generally taken by students who plan to major or minor in German. All participants had gone through the four-semester basic language sequence. Two participants’ data had to be dropped from the final analysis because one tape recording was incomplete and another student wrote the text reconstruction task in English instead of German, leaving twelve participants in the study. Materials The input passage w
