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    Incidental Vocabulary Learning The Case of Third Year Students in the Department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
    (Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2018) Oumerzouk, Leila; Yahoui, Nawal
    The present research is concerned with incidental vocabulary learning by third-year students in the Department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou. Our investigation aims at checking whether students learn vocabulary incidentallyand in which language skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) students are more involved to do so. This investigation is based on the theoretical framework of Hall (1992), Simcock (1993), Elley (1991) and Newton (1993). their theory of the occurrence of incidental vocabulary learning in the four language skills. To achieve the objectives mentioned, the study is based on a questionnaire as the research instrument which is distributed to 100 students. After the collection of information, we used The mixed method research combining both quantitative and qualitative methods, the quantitative method is used to collect and analyze the data obtained from the close-ended questions, therefore the rule of three is used. The qualitative content analysis is adopted to interpret and explain the results obtained from the open-ended questions. Therefore, the results reveal that students learn vocabulary incidentally and reading and listening are the receptive skills in which students have more opportunity to learn new word without any intention.