A Study of Using the Keyword or Highlighted Noun Captions for English Learning

Autor: Hung-jung Chang, 張宏榮
Rok vydání: 2010
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 98
The primary goal of this study was to determine whether technological enhancements to captioning would benefit students with high learning disabilities and low disabilities. All students were assigned three captioning levels: full text captions, keyword captions, or highlighted captions. An evaluation was conducted of the effects of using videos enhanced by captioning on comprehension and the secondary effects of different type of videos on comprehension and preference. The results of the experiment found that high learning disabilities students’ comprehension scores were significantly higher than those of low learning disabilities students, means it is to bring listening skill into full play. However, a post-hoc analysis revealed no significant difference between the means of the three captions group. But the highlighted captions group outperformed the keyword captions group and that the keyword caption group outperformed the keyword captions group. The positive effect of highlighted captions on comprehension, that just to conform what research expect. For low disabilities students, they well suited to assisting full text captions and highlighted captions.
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