An Empirical Study on Multimedia-based Social Constructivist Model in English Vocabulary Acquisition

Abstract

Basing on the aid of multimedia, this paper aims at investigating the development of students' controlled and free productive vocabulary through the application of the social constructivist model to a classroom vocabulary empirical study, so as to find out the relationship between FL learners' vocabulary acquisition and their application of social constructive model with the help of multimedia. On the basis of the results from this study, we attempt to put forward a new vocabulary acquisition model which combines the acquisition with production: combination of input and output, which will help FL learners narrow down the gap between their negative vocabulary and positive vocabulary under non-native environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]