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Teaching Foreign Languages through Audiovisual Translation Resources: Teachers' Perspectives
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Alonso-Pérez, Rosa; Sánchez-Requena, Alicia – Applied Language Learning, 2018
In the past decade, techniques traditionally used in the audiovisual translation (AVT) industry have been applied to foreign language teaching (FL) with promising results. Both teachers and researchers have provided useful data on various AVT typologies (i.e., subtitling, dubbing, audio description) to improve specific learning areas: vocabulary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Audiovisual Instruction
Enhancing Listening with Captions and Transcripts: Exploring Learner Differences
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Danan, Martine – Applied Language Learning, 2016
Through an analysis of students' reactions to transcription exercises, this exploratory study examined some of the differences between two forms of written help enhancing listening passages--second language (L2) captions and transcripts. This primarily qualitative analysis highlighted the role that student proficiency levels may have played in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Listening Comprehension, Language Proficiency, Layout (Publications)
L2 Reading Research and Pedagogical Considerations in the Teaching of French and Francophone Theater
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Edwards, Carole; Taylor, Alan M. – Applied Language Learning, 2012
Little research on improving second language (L2) reading comprehension of French and francophone theater has been conducted. This study provides insight into enhancing L2 comprehension of drama by combining L2 research with examples from L'accent grave by Jacques Prevert, Ton beau capitaine by Simone Schwarz-Bart (1987), Un Touareg s'est marie a…
Descriptors: Drama, Theater Arts, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
The Roles of Textual Enhancement and Type of Linguistic Item in Adult L2 Learners' Comprehension and Intake
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Leow, Ronald P.; Egi, Takako; Nuevo, Ana Maria; Tsai, Ya-Chin – Applied Language Learning, 2003
Leow (2001a) employed concurrent data elicitation procedures (think aloud protocols) to investigate the benefits of textual enhancement, premised on the roles of attention and awareness (noticing), in second/foreign language (L2) learning. The present study follows this methodological approach to further investigate these benefits in addition to…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Linguistic Input
Textual Enhancement and Simplified Input: Effects on L2 Comprehension and Acquisition of Non-Meaningful Grammatical Form
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Wong, Wynne – Applied Language Learning, 2003
The study set out to investigate how textual enhancement (TE) as a form of input enhancement and increasing the comprehensibility of input via simplified input (SI) might impact adult L2 French learners' acquisition of the past participle agreement in relative clauses and their comprehension of three texts in which the target forms were embedded.…
Descriptors: Adult Students, French, Second Language Learning, Comprehension
A Link between Reading Proficiency and Native-Like Use of Pausing in Speaking.
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Johnson, Ruth; Moore, Rita – Applied Language Learning, 1997
Investigated whether a correlation exists between a nonnative English speaker's reading proficiency in English and the use of native-English-like pausing in reading aloud. Results indicate a statistically significant although moderate correlation between students' reading test scores and their native-like use of pausing in reading aloud. (38…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Correlation, English (Second Language)