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Article published In: Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報)
Vol. 55:3 (2020) ► pp.175–192

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Multimedia learning materials for second language learners

A comparison of two kinds of videos

 | Nanyang Technological University
 | Soochow University
 | Nanyang Technological University
Published online: 11 August 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/csl.20013.he
Abstract
As an important form of second language input, videos have been given much attention by both language teachers and SLA researchers. Second language learning videos typically come in two forms: live-action videos (with human actors in realistic settings) and animation videos. In this paper, we report on an empirical study on the relative merits of these two kinds of videos for beginning learners of Chinese. A total of 82 participants took part in this research as students in a Beginners’ Chinese Language course at a university in Singapore. Each participant attended four learning sessions, two of which being based on live-action videos and another two on animation videos. Post-tests showed that the efficacy of the two kinds of videos differed between students who had had richer community exposure to Mandarin before attending the course and students who did not have such exposure. The former group performed significantly better than the latter after attending live-video sessions. However, students in the latter group reported a preference for animation videos during the post-interviews due to the more well-controlled quality of the soundtracks (i.e., less noisy background).
摘要
作为第二语言输入的一种重要形式，视频受到语言教师和二语习得研究者的广泛关注。二语教学视频通常有两种形式：在现实环境中由真人扮演的实景视频和动画视频。本文针对这两种视频的教学效果进行了实证对比研究。参与本次研究的学习者共有82名，均为新加坡某所大学汉语选修课程中的两级不同背景的初级学习者，一组为新加坡本地非华族学习者，另一组则为来新加坡进行短期交换的外国学习者。我们为学习者提供了四个教学视频,其中两个为实景视频，两个为动画视频。在不进行教学干预的情况下，考察学习者通过看视频的习得词汇效果。实验后测试显示，两组不同背景的参与者，通过两种视频的词汇习得效果有不同的表现，新加坡本地学习者与交换生学习者通过两种不同视频的词汇习得效果有不同的表现。具体来说，无论在实景视频或者动画视频学习环境中，新加坡本地学习者词汇习得效果远高于交换生的习得效果。本地学习者在两种条件下的词汇效果无显著差异，而交换生在动画视频中习得效果远高于他们在实景视频下的词汇习得效果。
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Literature review
    • Videos and L2 language learning
    • Videos in L2 vocabulary learning
    • Live-action videos vs. Animation videos
    • Research question
  • Methods
    • Participants
    • Materials: Videos
    • Materials: Quiz questions
    • Procedure
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • References
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