Chinese Captions and Foreign Language (mandarin) Comprehension
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INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of using Chinese captions vs. no captions on the Chinese (Mandarin) language comprehension of high intermediate universitylevel foreign language students. A total of 21 high intermediate (fifth semester) students participated in the study. The passage material consisted of a DVD episode (7 minutes) from a Chinese language interview of a pop music star. A total of 21 high intermediate (fifth semester) students participated in the study. The passage material consisted of a DVD episode (7 minutes) from a Chinese language interview of a pop music star. The students viewed only one of two treatment conditions: Chinese captions, or no captions. After viewing the video, the students demonstrated their comprehension via a ten minute English language written-recall protocol. The second comprehension task involved a 10item English language written multiple-choice test based on the DVD passage material. The results revealed that the participants in the Chinese language captions-group significantly outperformed the nocaptions group on both dependent measures despite the added complexity of processing Chinese characters at a fairly rapid rate.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010