Abstracts
Abstract
Audiovisual material enhanced with captions or interlingual subtitles is a particularly powerful pedagogical tool which can help improve the listening comprehension skills of second-language learners. Captioning facilitates language learning by helping students visualize what they hear, especially if the input is not too far beyond their linguistic ability. Subtitling can also increase language comprehension and leads to additional cognitive benefits, such as greater depth of processing. However, learners often need to be trained to develop active viewing strategies for an efficient use of captioned and subtitled material. Multimedia can offer an even wider range of strategies to learners, who can control access to either captions or subtitles.
Keywords/Mots-clés:
- captioning,
- language comprehension,
- language learning,
- learning strategies,
- subtitles
Résumé
L’audiovisuel, lorsqu’il est accompagné par l’écrit est un puissant moyen pédagogique qui peut améliorer les compétences en compréhension orale des apprenants de langue seconde. Ainsi, le sous-titrage intralinguistique, surtout s’il ne va pas au-delà des connaissances déjà maîtrisées, facilite l’apprentissage en aidant à visualiser ce qu’on entend. Quant aux sous-titres interlinguistiques, ils peuvent augmenter non seulement les capacités de compréhension, mais aussi les acquis cognitifs, par exemple en approfondissant les processus de traitement de l’information linguistique. Cependant, on doit souvent former les apprenants à des stratégies actives de perception pour arriver à une meilleure utilisation de ces écrits à l’écran. Avec les multimédias, on peut envisager d’autres stratégies d’acquisition.
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