Cartoons can be a stimulating and motivational force in the language classroom and, used effectively, can become an indispensible tool in the acquisition of language and culture. (Author/DB)

This special issue containing 10 articles addresses the application of technology, including educational media, telecommunication, and computers, to the education of hearing impaired students.

Recent developments and national initiatives in the expansion of available closed caption television programming and videotaped materials are reviewed in this article. Projects implementing captioned media resources in mainstream classrooms are featured, and other technological innovations with potential for use by deaf citizens are discussed. (PB)

Presents a study of integrated computer technology which incorporates pace-controlled syntactic chunking in a captioned video presentation. In addition to increasing student motivation and learning efficiency over time, the program supplied the least able students with the means to better understand and respond to foreign language discourse. The…

A study of 96 hearing, preservice teachers to determine the effect of including captions in instructional videotapes or caption-viewing strategy instruction found no difference in comprehension under four viewing conditions (non-captioned, captioned, captioned with 2 and 10 minute strategy practice). Concludes that attributing negative effects on…

Investigated caption use, sound, and reading behavior of 76 children who had just completed 2nd grade. The present study indicated that beginning readers recognize more words when they view television that uses captions. Captions, by evoking efforts to read, appeared to help a child focus on central story elements and away from distracting…

These three conference papers from the Biennial Conference on Postsecondary Education for Persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing focus on campus support services for individuals with deafness or hard of hearing. The first paper, "Realtime Captioning: Access Equals Success" (Harlene Rosen and Sandy Eisenburg), describes the services…

Designed for media specialists and educators, this issue includes five articles on innovative museum film programs. The first article describes a successful film program conducted at the Staten Island Children's Museum. The second article describes inventive children's programs at the Delaware Museum of Art. The programs use films and activities…

This project investigated the effectiveness of using closed-captioned television in the teaching of reading to learning-disabled and hearing-impared students. Seven teachers of learning disabled students, and 45 students ranging in age from 8 to 13 years, from a large Maryland public school system participated in this study. The first two of nine…

Research measured the attention of deaf children to captioned visuals using a conjugate reinforcement procedure. The subjects were six deaf children aged eight to 15, whose IQs fell within the normal range. The stimulus material consisted of slides produced from a captioned filmstrip; subjects controlled the presentation of the stimulus via a…

Presented are guidelines for the use of 65 captioned films for the deaf (numbers for each category are listed in parentheses) which relate to art (four), ecology (six), guidance (five), health and safety (two), language arts (11), physical education (four), science (16), social studies (14), and vocational education (three). The guidelines are…

Reviews 35 empirical studies and reviews that evaluated various aspects of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in higher education through analyzing the differential learning outcomes of groups of students. Captioned video segments, type of feedback, student attitudes and student achievement, and recommendations for the future are…

Explores two video instructional strategies for the foreign language classroom: advance organizers and captions in the target language. A set of classroom procedures are proposed that combine advance organizers and captions to teach English as a foreign language. (9 references) (Author/CK)

Outlines two theories of cognitive science that are relevant for instructional design, i.e., schema theory and cognitive load theory; and describes four experiments with Australian secondary school geography students that used these theories to examine the effects of splitting attention between technical illustrations and related text. (20…

Analyzes whether comprehensible input via captioned television influences acquisition of science vocabulary and concepts using 129 bilingual seventh and eighth graders. Finds that comprehensible input is a key ingredient in language acquisition and reading development. (MG)