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Effects of Multiple Viewing of Captions and Subtitles on English Proficiency

Authors:
Yayoi Anzai
Kanji Akahori

Keywords: captions, EFL; ESL; mobile learning

Abstract:
English as a Foreign Language teachers and the researchers in Japan have been seeking an effective way how mobile learning can be best integrated in language learning. There are also some others who have been searching the best way how captions and subtitles of the English videos can be used to enhance effective language learning. They often investigate the effects using computers. They generally agree that use of captions or subtitles are helpful to acquire the target language, and English captions are found to be more effective than Japanese subtitles to enhance English proficiency. However, there is a gap between the state of art and actual classroom situations. The students spend more time with smartphones than computers. They watch the same video a few times combining English captions and Japanese subtitles, not only with English captions. Thus, the purpose of this study was to find out the immediate effects of captions and subtitles together on EFL proficiency after viewing the same English video multiple times, using a smartphone. The results showed that a group with the Japanese subtitles and English captions performed better on the vocabulary section than that with only English captions.

Pages: 1 to 3

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: March 25, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4367

ISBN: 978-1-61208-619-4

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from March 25, 2018 to March 29, 2018