Effects of monolingual and bilingual subtitles on L2 vocabulary acquisition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21333005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mingyue Li (0000-0001-8417-5665, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics , Chengdu , China, corresponding author), Mairin Hennebry-Leung (0000-0002-1841-9497, University of Tasmania , Tasmania , Australia) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 843-870 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-042X • E-ISSN: 1613-4141 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/iral-2022-0034 |
| OpenAlex | W4311798841 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 44 |
This study investigates the differential effects of monolingual (L1 or L2) and bilingual (L1+L2) subtitles on students’ receptive vocabulary acquisition. In light of the widespread use of bilingual subtitles in videos in language classrooms with limited supportive literature available, this study aims at examining the pedagogical effects of bilingual subtitles on receptive vocabulary acquisition in the L2 classroom. A seven-week quasi-experimental study was conducted among four year-3 English-major classes in a Chinese university: three treatment groups and one control group. Adopting a counterbalanced design, students in the treatment classes were exposed to three types of subtitles within three videos. They were then tested on recall and recognition of the vocabulary target items encountered in the videos. The results demonstrate a significant advantage for bilingual subtitling in videos in terms of students’ vocabulary recognition and recall at post-test, and this advantage is maintained at the delayed post-test. Implications of the study are discussed in the context of current pedagogical practices such as a wider L1 use in the L2 classrooms
Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology) · Differential effects · Linguistics · Recall · Test (biology) · Vocabulary · Computer Science · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media · Translation Studies and Practices
Researching Vocabulary
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The value of teletext sub-titles in language learning
The architecture of the bilingual word recognition system
Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning
Form-focused Instruction in Second Language Vocabulary Learning
The Role of Consciousness in Second Language Learning1
Word repetition, masked orthographic priming, and language switching
L2 primes L1 – translation priming in LDT and semantic categorisation with unbalanced bilinguals
What works better for the learning of concrete and abstract words
Incidental vocabulary acquisition through L2 listening
Learning vocabulary through audiovisual input
Chinese learners' perceptions towards teachers' language use in lexical explanations
Glossing and Second Language Vocabulary Learning
Reversed Subtitling and Dual Coding Theory
How Big Is "Big"? Interpreting Effect Sizes in L2 Research
The Effect of Pre-reading Instruction on Vocabulary Learning
Captioning and Subtitling
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |