What is it about?
The role that proficiency and language aptitude play in the acquisition of a set of target words and their meaning while being exposed to a captioned TV series containing these words. Additional formal instruction turns out to be key in the process.
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Why is it important?
Captioned TV series are used informally to learn a language but oftentimes without a clear aim. This paper exposes how useful they are in learning vocabulary and the role that IDs such as proficiency and aptitude play in the learning process at two different ages.
Perspectives
The plus this paper offers is to question the potential of the use of captioned multimodal materials to learn a FL for the sake of it.
Dr Mª del Mar Suárez
Universitat de Barcelona
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This page is a summary of: Learning vocabulary with the support of sustained exposure to captioned video: do proficiency and aptitude make a difference?, Language Learning Journal, May 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09571736.2019.1617768.
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