Which presentation mode of a multimedia programme will help children in learning more L2 vocabulary:one with pictures,one with words or one combining both representations? The present experiment examined the effect of the three different presentation modes in Chinese EFL children's vocabulary learning with a self-regulated multimedia programme.Participants were 135 seventh grade children who read a short English language story presented by a computer programme.For 12
in the storychildren received verbal annotationsvisual annotationsor both.Recall of word translations was better for children who only received verbal annotations than those who received simultaneously visual and verbal annotations or visual annotations