Effects of Watching Captioned Movie Clips on Vocabulary Development of EFL Learners

Dogan Yuksel
Belgin Tanriverdi
Turkey

Bajar Articulo AQUÍ

El objetivo de este estudio fue examinar los efectos de ver un clip de video con captions en el aprendizaje incidental de vocabulario.

Many educators recommend their students to watch TV and movies with captions in the belief that being exposed to the target language in this way will increase the language proficiency level of their students. However, the number of the studies that specifically examined the functions of captioned movies in second/foreign language learning is few compared to the popularity of the assumption regarding the effectiveness of the captioned movies in language development. To fill in the gap in literature, this study investigated the effects of closed-captioning on incidental vocabulary acquisition. (p.48)

1. Como parte de su justificación, los autores afirman que muchos educadores recomiendan el uso de video con captions para practicar en casa. Lógico... pero igual me hubiese gustado ver algún tipo de estadística, encuesta o algo mejor como respaldo a esta aseveración.

The current study examined the effects of watching a closed-captioned movie clip on incidental vocabulary learning in a pre-test post-test experimental design.

2. EL artículo posee un apartado sobre "vocabulary acquisition" pero los autores no dan una definición clara de lo que entienden por "incidental"

3. Lo que más me gustó de este estudio fue la "scale of vocabulary knowledge" que usaron en los pre y post tests. :)

I. I don’t remember having seen this word before.
II.I have seen this word before, but I don’t know what it means.
III. I have seen this word before, and I think it means (synonym or translation)
IV. I know this word. It means … (synonym or translation)
V. I can use this word in a sentence: (Write a sentence) (If you do this section, please also do Section IV.)
Figure 2. Wesche & Paribakht’s (1996) Vocabulary Knowledge Scale

4. Acerca de la discusión/conclusiones.

The researchers believe that the development in the knowledge of the target words stemmed from the importance of encountering the words in the context. Overall, our study supported the belief that most vocabulary is learned from context (Sternberg, 1987).

mmmmm mmmmm mmmmmm una de las varias explicaciones que he leído en estos días :)


Conclusión principal:

that viewing the movie clip has helped the participants of the current study develop their vocabulary knowledge regardless of the absence or presence of captions.

mmm mmm mmm :S

Kocaeli University, Turkey

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