活動手冊 - 開南大學
活動手冊 - 開南大學
活動手冊 - 開南大學
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Advance Organizers and Bilingual Subtitles on College Students’<br />
Listening Performance---A Pilot Study<br />
Li-Hung Zhang, Ph.D.<br />
Assistant Professor<br />
Department of English<br />
National Pingtung University of Education<br />
Tai-Wei, Wu<br />
Graduation Program<br />
Department of English<br />
National Pingtung University of Education<br />
Abstract<br />
The purpose of this study is to exam the effects of movie clips with auxiliary<br />
subtitling in combination with the provision of advance organizers on the listening<br />
comprehension of college students. The participants are 79 freshmen or sophomores<br />
from different colleges. Forty-eight of them have passed the Intermediate Level (reading<br />
& listening) of GEPT (General English Proficiency Test), whereas others have yet to<br />
pass the test. With reference to the GEPT performance, all participants are randomly<br />
assigned into one of two different groups: the group with English caption only (Group<br />
A) and the other with both Chinese and English subtitles (Group B). During the<br />
experiment, both groups receive Chinese explanations of the words and phrases in<br />
advance, and they watch two 20-minute movie clips of The Perfect Match. After the<br />
movie, the participants are asked to take the fill-in-the-blank listening comprehension<br />
and multiple-choice story comprehension tests, to fill out questionnaires, and to give<br />
written feedbacks. The findings are as follows: (1) Group B performs significantly<br />
better than Group A both in fill-in-the-blank listening comprehension and<br />
multiple-choice story comprehension tests; (2) significant difference is found between<br />
the participants who have passed the GEPT Intermediate Level Test and those who have<br />
not in group A. (3) More than 90% of the participants believe that advance organizers<br />
have played facilitative roles in movie comprehension, but the dialogue/caption speed is<br />
still too fast. The results reveal two reminders for teachers: (1) it is important for<br />
teachers to consider teaching proficiency levels of students before deciding on the<br />
teaching material. (2) It is an effective and efficient method for teachers to familiarize<br />
their students with advance organizers.<br />
Keywords: Advance organizers, bilingual subtitles, proficiency level<br />
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