Captioned Media in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard-Of-Hearing as Tools for Language Learning

by Robert Vanderplank

This book brings together current thinking on informal language learning and the findings of over 30 years of research on captions (same language subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) to present a new model of language learning from captioned viewing and a future roadmap for research and practice in this field. Language learners may have normal hearing but they are 'hard-of-listening' and find it difficult to follow the rapid or unclear speech...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349698849
• ISBN13: 9781349698844
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"