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"Effects Of" and "Effects With" Captions: How Exactly Does Watching a TV Programme with Same-Language Subtitles Make a Difference to Language Learners?
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Vanderplank, Robert – Language Teaching, 2016
Ever since Karen Price's ground-breaking work in 1983, we have known that same-language subtitles (captions) primarily intended for the deaf and hearing-impaired can provide access to foreign language films and TV programmes which would otherwise be virtually incomprehensible to non-native-speaker viewers. Since then, researchers have steadily…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Second Language Learning, Layout (Publications), Visual Aids