TAILIEUCHUNG - THE EFFECTS OF CLOSED-CAPTIONED TELEVISION ON THE LISTENING COMPREHENSION OF INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL) STUDENTS

Ultimately the aim would be for adequate long term funding being available to refugee and asylum seekers self-help, community and voluntary sector organisations in order for them to deliver local services to local communities. Treatment and service options would therefore be more easily controlled and chosen in accordance with the context of refugee and asylum seekers lives and therefore the actual needs and choices of the individual. This approach requires a truly radical re-organisation potentially encompassing changes not only in healthcare but in welfare, housing, employment and immigration policy. Local community groups, ideally managed by committees. | J. EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS 28 1 75-96 1999-2000 THE EFFECTS OF CLOSED-CAPTIONED TELEVISION ON THE LISTENING COMPREHENSION OF INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE ESL STUDENTS HSIN-CHUAN HUANG DAVID E. ESKEY University of Southern California ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of closed-captioned TV CCTV on the listening comprehension of intermediate English as a second language ESL students. Thirty students with intermediate levels of ESL proficiency participated in this study. Since vocabulary phrase acquisition and comprehension are main factors that influence the success failure of listening comprehension this research also examined the effects of CCTV on these two subscales. The correlations between the listening comprehension and other factors starting age of ESL instruction length of time in the United States length of ESL instruction length of time in private language schools length of time with tutors and length of time traveling in English speaking coun-tries were inspected as well. Subjects perceptions of the effects of CCTV on ESL learning were also covered in the study. The results of the research showed that CCTV helped ESL students general comprehension vocabulary acquisition and listening comprehension. However all other factors examined in the study such as age of starting ESL instruction length of ESL instruction etc. did not correlate with the listening comprehension test. Closed captioning technology was originally devised for the benefit of the hearing impaired. However the marketing studies of the National Captioning Institute in 1989 suggest that over half of the decoders are sold to the hearing population and among the purchasers many are immigrant families. Hofmeister et al. 1 also claim that at least 40 percent of the decoders are purchased for persons other than 75 1999 Baywood Publishing Co. Inc. 76 HUANG AND ESKEY the hearing impaired. They reported one informal survey of decoder sales by the sales staff in a college

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