An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Multimedia Annotation to the News Listening Comprehension

Qiangmei LIANG

Abstract


With the continuous progress of science and technology, computers are more widely used in English teaching. In most English classes, computer aided learning and teaching has become an indispensable part of classroom activities. On the other hand, enhancing language skills through multimedia technologies become one of the scholars’ concerns. English tests like College English Test (CET) is very popular among the Chinese mainland English learners, to whom the listening part is always the hardest section. Accordingly, how to improve their listening comprehension in the news section leaves us a hot debate in nowadays. For this purpose, through the investigation of how the news listening comprehension is subject to different modes of multimedia annotations, the paper tries to find out the correlation between the effectiveness of multimedia glossaries and listening comprehension of the Chinese mainland EFL learners and hopefully the study could inspire the language educators and other related professions.


Keywords


Multimedia annotation; Listening comprehension; EFL teaching and learning

Full Text:

PDF

References


Akbulut, Y. (2007). Effects of multimedia annotations on incidental vocabulary learning and reading comprehension of advanced learners of English as a foreign language. InstrSci, 35, 499-517.

Boers, F., Paul, W., Gina, G., & Anna, S. (2017). On the benefits of multimodal annotations for vocabulary uptake from reading, Computer Assisted Language Learning, 30(7), 709-725.

Hüllen, W. (1989). In the beginning was the gloss. In G. James (Ed.), Lexicographers and Their Works (pp.100-116). Exeter, UK: University of Exeter.

Jones, L. C. (2009). Supporting student differences in listening comprehension and vocabulary learning with multimedia annotations. CALICO Journal, 26(2), 267-289.

Laufer, B., & Hulstifjin, J. (2001). Incidental vocabulary acquisition in a second language: The construct of task-induced involvement. Applied Linguistics, 22(1), 1-26.

Leffa, V. J. (1992). Making foreign language texts comprehensible for beginners: An experiment with an electronic dictionary. System, 20, 63-73.

Lomicka, L. (1998). “To gloss or not to gloss”: An investigation of reading comprehension online. Language Learning & Technology, 1(2), 41-50.

Mayer, R. E. (2003). Elements of a science of E-learning. Educational Computing Research, 29(3), 297-313.

Nagy, W. E., Herman, P. A., & Anderson, R. C. (1985). Learning words from contexts. Reading Research Quarterly, 20(2), 233-253.

Paivio A. (1986). Mental representations: a dual coding approach. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Poel K. & Swanepoel P. (2003). Theoretical and methodological pluralism in designing effective lexical support for CALL. Computer-Assisted Language Learning, 16(2-3), 173-211.

Roby, W. B. (1999). “What’s in a gloss?” A commentary on Lara L. Lomickas’ ‘To gloss or not to gloss’: An investigation of reading comprehension online. Language Learning & Technology, 2(2), 94-101.

Segler, T. M. (2001). Ph. D. research proposal: second language vocabulary acquisition and learning strategies in ICALL environment [D/OL].




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/11887

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2020 qiangmei liang

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Share us to:   

Reminder

  • How to do online submission to another Journal?
  • If you have already registered in Journal A, then how can you submit another article to Journal B? It takes two steps to make it happen:

1. Register yourself in Journal B as an Author

  • Find the journal you want to submit to in CATEGORIES, click on “VIEW JOURNAL”, “Online Submissions”, “GO TO LOGIN” and “Edit My Profile”. Check “Author” on the “Edit Profile” page, then “Save”.

2. Submission

  • Go to “User Home”, and click on “Author” under the name of Journal B. You may start a New Submission by clicking on “CLICK HERE”.


We only use three mailboxes as follows to deal with issues about paper acceptance, payment and submission of electronic versions of our journals to databases:
caooc@hotmail.com; hess@cscanada.net; hess@cscanada.org

 Articles published in Higher Education of Social Science are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY).

HIGHER EDUCATION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Editorial Office

Address: 1055 Rue Lucien-L'Allier, Unit #772, Montreal, QC H3G 3C4, Canada.
Telephone: 1-514-558 6138 
Website: Http://www.cscanada.net Http://www.cscanada.org 
E-mail: caooc@hotmail.com; office@cscanada.net

Copyright © 2010 Canadian Research & Development Center of Sciences and Cultures