“…Similar performance of the incidental and control groups, in principle, indicates that the participants from the incidental group did not acquire the target words after having watched 5 hours of the TV series. In this sense, the results of our study are in line with previous research by Bisson et al (2014), Birulés-Muntané and Soto-Faraco (2016), Peters et al (2016) and Sinyashina (2019) as the authors of these papers did not find conclusive evidence of the effectiveness of watching authentic videos for incidental learning of new lexis. At the same time, there seems to be a contradiction between the results of the present study and those by Zarei (2009), Rodger (2013), Gorjian (2014), BavaHarji et al 2014, Frumuselu et al (2015), Peters and Webb (2018), Chen et al (2018) and Pujadas and Muñoz (2019) as these studies reveal clear incidental vocabulary gains after the participants' exposure to subtitled/captioned authentic video material.…”