Thanks! Related to your last observation, I see this in an
informative 2010 Boston Globe article:
"But even as far back as the early 1990s, there was some research
support for the idea that television subtitles can improve
reading skills. Finland, for example, a country that has
repeatedly placed first on education rankings created by the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, has
attributed much of its educational success to captions. For
several decades now, Finland has chosen to subtitle its foreign
language television programs (in Finnish) instead of dubbing over
them. As a result, Finnish high school students read better than
students from European countries that dub their TV programs. They
are also more proficient at English."
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/09/19/watch_and_learn/?page=2
- Stephen
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Richard Pieri wrote:
Stephen Ronan wrote:
I'd be curious for any thoughts/experience list members have had.
I can't speak to the educational qualities of captioned video. There are two
things that I can say.
The first is that, after having spent countless hours watching "Sesame
Street" and "The Electric Company" whilst growing up, having grammar and
arithmetic written out on screen does have a positive effect on learning.
The second is that, after having spent many more countless hours (I think --
I didn't count) watching non-English films with English subtitles, reading
along with subtitles does take more mental effort than listening to the same
dialog in English.
--
Rich P.
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