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The purpose of the study is to investigate which kind of focus-on-form instruction is effective in promoting incidental learning of English verb patterns in meaning-focused reading classes. The study compared the effectiveness of three kinds of focus-on-form instruction in learning 7 English verb patterns incidentally by 94 Korean university students with low English language proficiency: (1) the use of a dictionary, (2) the provision of marginal glosses, and (3) the provision of input enhancement and sentence-level translations. The study found that the provision of marginal glosses had a significantly greater effect on promoting incidental learning of the target verb patterns than the use of a dictionary and the provision of input enhancement and sentence-level translations. This result may be due to the fact that the target verb patterns were not noticed when dictionary use was allowed or input enhancement and sentence-level translations were provided, whereas the learners’ attention was drawn to marginal glosses and so the target verb patterns were noticed.