Comparing L1 and L2 English listeners' accurate word identification RT ... Summarizing L1 and L2 English listeners' performance comparisons ......... Do Both Number of Vowel Errors and Direction of Stress Shift Help Predict L1 and L2 English Listeners' Word Stress Error Processing Performance?. Evaluating the impact of number of vowel errors vs. direction of stress shift on listeners' auditory LD accuracy .

from the introduction days 36 Participants' DAVI uploads and my upload feedback iii Screen capture 38 Field notes from conversation with Kara End-of-study questionnaires and follow-up questioning 39 Summary CHAPTER 4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Review of the Research Questions Did the intermediate IEP learners in this study think DAVI is an effective means of acquiring academic vocabulary? 42 Participants whose data contributed to answering this question Key data relevant to research question #1 Evaluation of participants' data relevant to research question #1 How are the ways in which learners completed one or more of the tasks in DAVI likely to have affected their academic vocabulary acquisition? Read the examples provided for each word "Find your own examples" Applying textual enhancements 54 "Write your own sentence" Using the "review day schedule" 56 Summary How do students prefer to study vocabulary? 58 Using a faster method 58 Using a non-computer-based method Summary CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSION 61 Recommendations for Future Research 68 Conclusion APPENDIX: Comprehensible Contexts in DAVI Reasons for the use of the Corpus of Contemporary American English Five comprehensibility criteria 70 Exact quotes from COCA REFERENCES CITED 76

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