Thursday, November 22, 2007Closed Caption
- Closed captioning is now available on most North American television shows.
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- Captioning, which means that subtitles are printed across the bottom of the screen, was originally devised in order to allow deaf people to read the dialogue of televised programming.
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- Recently many non-native speakers of English are using the captioning as well. Instead of struggling to try and catch the dialogue of a show, which is often filled with idiomatic speech, and slang expressions that are delivered quickly with excessive emotion, students are turning on the closed captioning and reading the dialogue.
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- There is definitely something to be said for the ease in which students can learn dialogue that they may not be able to catch just by listening to a program.
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- There is however, a risk that students will rely on the captioning excessively, and not put themselves in positions that will force them to work on developing their listening skills.
POSTED BY Cecelia Sumi AT 3:06 PM
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