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The Effects of Captioned video on Learning English Idiomatic Expressions among ESL Learners in the advance Level

Jahanyfard, Asieh

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2015, Master of Arts, University of Toledo, English (English as a Second Language).
These day teachers try to find the best ways for teaching English to their students. They use variety of materials to improve their students’ skills. Videos play important roles in providing interesting learning environment for the students. In addition, after using the videos in the classes to teach English, many researchers attempt to find more effective ways to bring videos into the classroom. The research shows that if videos include some text; they will provide a better input for students to learn better. Captioning is the one of the ways that can improve the use of videos. This study researches the effects of captions in learning language and checks the correctness of the Noticing Hypothesis of Schmidt. In total, 19 participants in the advanced level of ALI (American Language Institute) in the University of Toledo were involved in this study. The participants was divided to three groups the control group (watched the video without subtitles), experimental group 1 (watched video with regular subtitles) and experimental group 2(watched the video with subtitles that include some highlighted vocabulary items). The results show that the students in the experimental group 1 and 2 got the higher score in the tests. Thus, captions could help the students to learn more. In addition, the experimental group 2, got the highest scores, it means that highlighted captions cause more learning. In addition, the results of study did not support Schmidt’s idea. The learning did not have correlation with noticing in this study. The students learned some items that they did not noticing to them.
Douglas Coleman (Committee Chair)
Alexander Wrege (Committee Member)
Gaby Semaan (Committee Member)
62 p.

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  • Jahanyfard, A. (2015). The Effects of Captioned video on Learning English Idiomatic Expressions among ESL Learners in the advance Level [Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1449840739

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jahanyfard, Asieh. The Effects of Captioned video on Learning English Idiomatic Expressions among ESL Learners in the advance Level . 2015. University of Toledo, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1449840739.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jahanyfard, Asieh. "The Effects of Captioned video on Learning English Idiomatic Expressions among ESL Learners in the advance Level ." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1449840739

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)