title: Effects of the order of reading text or viewing a film and L1/L2 captions on reading comprehension.
abstract: The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of order of reading text or viewing a film and L1/L2 captions on participants' comprehension. The participants were college freshmen (N = 236) enrolled in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) courses. In the experiment, there were four conditions: the text was read first, and then the film version viewed with either Chinese or English subtitles, or the film version was viewed first with Chinese or English subtitles. Pre-test and post-test scores on the General English Proficiency Test (GEPT) indicated that the read-first group viewing the film with Chinese subtitles outperformed the read-first and view-first groups viewing the film version with English subtitles.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied English, Hungkuang University. mlchen@sunrise.hk.edu.tw
authors.forename: Mei-Ling
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D032882:Comprehension; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007807:Language Tests; D009040:Motion Pictures; D019303:Multilingualism; D011932:Reading; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult