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The effect of asynchronous Subtitling on Decoding in L2 listening of EFL learners

آموزش زبان انگليسي

95/5/12

محمد آقاجانزاده

شهين شيخ

listening comparison , perception difficulties , asynchronous subtitle , decoding time

آقاجانزاده , محمد , شيخ , شهين

The first step in listening comparison is to segment connected speech an​d distinguish words which is called decoding. Failure in decoding step prevents listeners from comprehension before they use top-down strategies an​d puts more burden on working memory while its capacity should be used for the high level meaning extracting process. This study proposed a way to ease perception difficulties of listening through asynchronous subtitle in which words come one-by-one an​d most important, immediately after any spoken unit which could include a single word, phrase o​r simple sentences. Three groups of learners participated in the study: The members of the first group individually watched the film without subtitle an​d the second group watched the same movie with regular subtitle an​d the third group watched the same movie with asynchronous subtitle. Analysis through one-way anova test revealed that the third group (asynchronous subtitle) outperformed two other groups an​d there was not any significant difference between other two groups. Meanwhile, Stimulated Recall protocol revealed that students had an upbeat attitude toward the innovation an​d found it positive in their L2 listening.

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