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Captioned Media in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing as Tools for Language Learning
Robert Vanderplank
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Description for Captioned Media in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing as Tools for Language Learning
paperback. Series: New Language Learning and Teaching Environments. Num Pages: 262 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 3 colour illustrations, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CB; CFB; CJ; JNV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book brings together current thinking on informal language learning and the findings of over 30 years of research on captions (same language subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) to present a new model of language learning from captioned viewing and a future roadmap for research and practice in this field. Language learners may have normal hearing but they are ‘hard-of-listening’ and find it difficult to follow the rapid or unclear speech in many films and TV programmes. Vanderplank considers whether watching with captions not only enables learners to understand and enjoy foreign language television and films but also helps ... Read more
This book brings together current thinking on informal language learning and the findings of over 30 years of research on captions (same language subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) to present a new model of language learning from captioned viewing and a future roadmap for research and practice in this field. Language learners may have normal hearing but they are ‘hard-of-listening’ and find it difficult to follow the rapid or unclear speech in many films and TV programmes. Vanderplank considers whether watching with captions not only enables learners to understand and enjoy foreign language television and films but also helps ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Series
New Language Learning and Teaching Environments
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349698844
SKU
V9781349698844
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Ref
99-15
About Robert Vanderplank
Robert Vanderplank is Director of Oxford University Language Centre and a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, where he is also Director of the Kellogg College Centre for the Study of Lifelong Language Learning and maintains the LARA database on language attrition research (www.lara.ox.ac.uk). His research interests and publications include television and language learning, listening comprehension, learner strategies, language testing and ... Read more
Reviews for Captioned Media in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing as Tools for Language Learning
“This book addresses a much debated topic in the research on foreign language teaching and learning: the role of captioned audiovisuals for educational purposes. … The book can also offer valuable insights to independent learners who wish to study or practice foreign languages by means of captioned multimedia tools.” (Annamaria Caimi, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 51(4), December, 2017) “I found ... Read more