The Effect of Bimodal, Standard, and Reversed Subtitling on L2 Vocabulary Recognition and Recall

The Effect of Bimodal, Standard, and Reversed Subtitling on L2 Vocabulary Recognition and Recall Article 4, Volume 13, Issue 49, Winter and Spring 2009 XML PDF (218 K) Abstract To investigate the effect of three modes of subtitling on vocabulary recognition, 97 participants in three groups at Imam Khomeini International University in Qazvin were presented with the same film but using different ways of subtitling. To compare the participant's vocabulary recognition, a one-way ANOVA was run. Results indicated that although the difference between the bimodal and standard groups was not statistically significant, both groups were significantly better than the reversed subtitling group. Another one-way ANOVA was used to compare the learner's vocabulary recall. Analyses showed that bimodal subtitling was significantly more effective than standard subtitling, which in turn, was significantly more effective than reversed subtitling. The findings of the present study can have theoretical and practical implications for both vocabulary recognition and recall.