The effects of captioning on EFL learners' listening comprehension

Abstract

This study investigated the effects of English captions, Turkish captions, or no captions on the listening comprehension of intermediate and low-intermediate level EFL learners. A total of 30 Grade-8 primary school students participated as intact groups in the study. The participants viewed the first 19-min segment of the movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in only one of the three passage conditions: English captions, Turkish captions, or no captions and completed a 20-item multiple-choice listening comprehension test. The results of ANOVA procedures demonstrated that the students in all three conditions performed similarly on the listening comprehension test. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of ALSC 2012