Keywords: Niños, Adquisición de Segunda Lengua, Medios de Comunicación Children, Second Language Acquisition, Media Nens, Adquisició de Segon Llengua, Mitjans de Comunicació

Title in different languages: Los Efectos de los Videos Auténticos Subtitulados en la Adquisición de Lengua Extranjera en Niños The Effects of Captioned Authentic Video on Children’s Foreign Language Acquisition Els Efectes dels Vídeos Autèntics Subtitulats en L'Adquisició de Llengua Estrangera en Nens

Subject areas: Ciencias de la salud Education sciences Ciències de l'educació

Confidenciality: No

Academic year: 2020-2021

Student: McCallum, Sarah

Department: Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys

Access Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Work's public defense date: 2021-06-21

TFM credits: 11

Project director: Manegre, Marni

Abstract: This study investigates the benefits of authentic audiovisual input for language acquisition beginning with a comparison of case studies of two similar Basque girls who have different levels of English proficiency and English television exposure. Building from those studies and the literature in the field, the experimental study then investigates the hypotheses that the variables of watching authentic video, viewing with captions, and the subjects’ background English media exposure will positively influence their language acquisition. The findings showed that while watching authentic English video enhanced acquisition, captioning and informal English media exposure did not contribute to overall improvement. This study investigates the benefits of authentic audiovisual input for language acquisition beginning with a comparison of case studies of two similar Basque girls who have different levels of English proficiency and English television exposure. Building from those studies and the literature in the field, the experimental study then investigates the hypotheses that the variables of watching authentic video, viewing with captions, and the subjects’ background English media exposure will positively influence their language acquisition. The findings showed that while watching authentic English video enhanced acquisition, captioning and informal English media exposure did not contribute to overall improvement.

Subject: Ciències de l'educació

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)

Language: Anglès

Education area(s): Ensenyament i Adquisició de l'Anglès com a Llengua Estrangera / Segona Llengua

Title in original language: The Effects of Captioned Authentic Video on Children’s Foreign Language Acquisition

Creation date in repository: 2021-07-06