Watching Subtitled Films Can Help Learning Foreign Languages.

ABSTRACT: Watching English-spoken films with subtitles is becoming increasingly popular throughout the world. One reason for this trend is the assumption that perceptual learning of the sounds of a foreign language, English, will improve perception skills in non-English speakers. Yet, solid proof for this is scarce. In order to test the potential learning effects derived from watching subtitled media, a group of intermediate Spanish students of English as a foreign language watched a 1h-long episode of a TV drama in its original English version, with English, Spanish or no subtitles overlaid. Before and after the viewing, participants took a listening and vocabulary test to evaluate their speech perception and vocabulary acquisition in English, plus a final plot comprehension test. The results of th

SUBMITTER: Birules-Muntane J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4927148 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature