First Advisor

Marjorie Terdal

Term of Graduation

Fall 1989

Date of Publication

11-1-1989

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.) in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Department

Applied Linguistics

Language

English

Subjects

English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Audio-visual aids, Listening -- Study and teaching, Video tapes in education

DOI

10.15760/etd.5843

Physical Description

1 online resource (3, iv, 86 pages)

Abstract

The use of videotapes has become widespread in ESL classes in recent years. The decline in cost of tapes and VCR equipment has assisted in the spread of this technology. These tapes are often used in listening comprehension classes and may replace or supplement the use of audiotapes. However, research has not established that the addition of the visual element, especially in the movie or TV type context of many videos, is an advantage to the language learner.

A total of seventy-six students participated in a listening comprehension recall exercise. Thirty-nine students viewed a videotape segment, and the remaining thirty-seven students listened to the audio portion of the same segment. Each group viewed or listened to the tape two times. Then the groups were given twenty minutes to write a recall. Each paper was scored for total idea units recalled, macropropositions, elaborations, and distortions.

The hypotheses posed were:

1. ESL students listening to an audiotape will score higher on an immediate recall protocol listening comprehension text than the students watching a videotape of the same material.

2) ESL students listening to an audiotape will have fewer elaborations on the immediate recall protocol than will students watching the videotape.

3) ESL students listening to an audiotape will have fewer distortions on the immediate recall protocol than will students watching the videotape.

4) ESL students listening to an audiotape will remember more macropropositions on the immediate recall protocol than will students watching the videotape.

5) ESL students listening to an audiotape will have immediate recall protocol scores which will correlate with their TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) or Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency scores.

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