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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. New Language Learning and Teaching Environments
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Vanderplank, Robert – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2016
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…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Listening Vocabulary: Embracing Forgotten Aural Features
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Siegel, Joseph – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2016
This article describes an innovation in the teaching and learning of vocabulary in English as a Foreign Language classes. Whereas vocabulary coverage in classrooms and textbooks traditionally focuses on lists of target words in printed form, this article promotes the notion of "aural vocabulary" as an important part of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
A Prerequisite to L1 Homophone Effects in L2 Spoken-Word Recognition
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Nakai, Satsuki; Lindsay, Shane; Ota, Mitsuhiko – Second Language Research, 2015
When both members of a phonemic contrast in L2 (second language) are perceptually mapped to a single phoneme in one's L1 (first language), L2 words containing a member of that contrast can spuriously activate L2 words in spoken-word recognition. For example, upon hearing cattle, Dutch speakers of English are reported to experience activation…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Phonetics, Language Processing
Listen, My Children, and You Shall Hear (Book 2-Revised). Grades Four through Six.
Kratoville, Betty Lou – 1987
Designed to help children with auditory perceptual problems from fourth through sixth grade, the manual contains essays and exercises to develop listening skills, auditory memory, vocabulary, and imagination. The first section contains instructions to the teacher and the essays which are at three levels of difficulty and intended to be read to the…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Imagination, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities
Listen, My Children, and You Shall Hear (Book 1-Revised). Pre-school through Grade Four.
Kratoville, Betty Lou – 1987
Designed to help children with auditory perceptual problems from preschool through grade 4, the manual contains stories and exercises to develop listening skills, auditory memory, vocabulary, and imagination. The first section contains instructions to the teacher as well as stories which are at three levels of difficulty and intended to be read to…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Elementary Education, Imagination, Learning Activities
Fine-Grained Auditory Discrimination: Factor Structures.
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Elliott, Lois L.; Hammer, Michael A. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
This study, with 161 children with and without language learning problems, tested the hypothesis that as children's language development matures, factor-analytic structural changes occur that are associated with measurements of fine-grained auditory discrimination, receptive vocabulary, receptive language, speech production, and 3 performance…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Developmental Stages, Discrimination Learning