campbell-alan-tesis16

251 Pages·2016·4.82 MB·English

by  Alan Patrick Campbell

Subtitling for Mission Accomplishment: An Experimental Study of
the Effect of Subtitling as a Task on Listening Comprehension
for Learners of Military English for Specific Purposes

By:

Alan Patrick Campbell

Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Seville, Spain
June 2016

DEDICATION

To my incredible parents for their love, support, patience, and encouragement.

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To the 32 Hokies whose lives were tragically taken on April 16th, 2007,
each of whom embodied tremendous promise for our world
with creativity, intelligence, humility, and humanity.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First and foremost, I would like to thank my parents for their unconditional love and
acceptance. By your example, you have taught me the value of hard work, dedication, and
perseverance. You have sacrificed much to provide me with enriching life experiences that
have made me who I am and that have led me to where I am today. Without you, this would
never have been possible. Thank you, mom and dad.

I would like to sincerely thank my supervisor, Dr. Adrián Fuentes, for believing in me and for
motivating me through this adventure. Your wisdom, kindness, and friendship are a true gift.
Time and again, you were there when I needed encouragement, and your confidence in my
ability and in my project helped make this a reality.

To my friends - thank you for your inspiration and for your understanding, for your
willingness to listen to my ideas and to provide feedback, for taking a genuine interest, and
for constantly motivating me to finish this piece of research.

To all of my teachers in Brentwood, Tennessee, especially Mrs. Miller, who encouraged my
natural curiosity from a young age, as well as Susan Storrer and Marissa Stark, with whom I
began this wild ride of language learning.

I would also like to thank all of my professors in Blacksburg, Virginia, especially Dr.
Antonio Fernández-Vázquez (EPD), who I hope would have been proud; Dr. Judith Shrum,
for sharing your passion for language teaching and learning, and Dr. Jessica Folkart, for
inspiring in me a love of Spain and for believing in me, always. To you all, your dedication to
both teaching and research is a shining example that I aspire to - thank you.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Table of Contents ...................................................................................................................... iii
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms ............................................................................ vii
List of Tables ................................................................................................................... ix
List of Figures ................................................................................................................. xi
List of Appendices ....................................................................................................... xiii
I. Chapter 1: Introduction ............................................................................................... 1
A. General Introduction ................................................................................................ 1
B. Historical Background ............................................................................................. 2
C. Problem Statement ................................................................................................... 8
D. Purpose and Significance of the Study .................................................................. 10
E. Research Questions................................................................................................ 12
F. Hypotheses............................................................................................................. 12
G. Conceptual Framework Overview ......................................................................... 13
H. Definitions of Terms .............................................................................................. 14
I. Research Design Overview ................................................................................... 15
J. Study Organization ................................................................................................ 19
II. Chapter 2: Literature Review and Conceptual Framework ....................................... 21
A. General Introduction .............................................................................................. 21
B. Literature Review .................................................................................................. 21
1. Introduction ........................................................................................................ 21
2. Historical Overview of the use of Subtitled Audiovisual Materials in Language
Teaching and Learning ..................................................................................................... 22
3. Existing Research: Subtitling as a Learner Task ............................................... 31
4. Summary and Implications of Literature Review .............................................. 41
C. Conceptual Framework .......................................................................................... 45
1. Introduction ........................................................................................................ 45
2. Krashen’s Input Hypothesis and Affective Filter Hypothesis ........................... 46
3. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) ...................................................... 50
4. English for Specific Purposes (ESP).................................................................. 52
5. Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) .......................................................... 56
6. Listening Comprehension .................................................................................. 61
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7. Online Learning Theory ..................................................................................... 69
8. Audiovisual Translation (AVT) ......................................................................... 74
III. Chapter 3: Methodology ........................................................................................ 85
A. Introduction ........................................................................................................... 85
B. Research Questions and Purpose ........................................................................... 86
C. Sampling ................................................................................................................ 87
D. Rationale for Selection Criteria ............................................................................. 88
E. Design and Experimental Manipulation ................................................................ 94
F. Experimental Procedures ....................................................................................... 96
G. Instrumentation .................................................................................................... 101
1. The Dependent Variable .................................................................................. 101
2. The Independent Variable ................................................................................ 109
3. End-of-Course Survey ..................................................................................... 124
H. Limitations ........................................................................................................... 127
IV. Chapter 4: Analysis and Discussion .................................................................... 129
A. Introduction ......................................................................................................... 129
B. Description of the Sample ................................................................................... 130
C. Blocking Factor and Assignment to Groups ........................................................ 133
D. Description of the Experimental and Control Groups ......................................... 141
E. Pre and Post Observations ................................................................................... 141
F. Data Analysis and Results: Hypotheses 1 and 2.................................................. 148
G. Data Analysis and Results: Hypothesis 3 ............................................................ 154
H. Listening Comprehension Self-Assessment ........................................................ 160
I. Summary .............................................................................................................. 161
V. Chapter 5: Final Conclusions and Further Research ............................................... 163
A. Introduction ......................................................................................................... 163
B. Discussion ............................................................................................................ 165
1. Research Question 1 ........................................................................................ 165
2. Research Question 2 ........................................................................................ 166
3. Research Question 3 ........................................................................................ 169
C. Implications ......................................................................................................... 171
D. Recommendations for Future Research ............................................................... 172
E. Final Thoughts ..................................................................................................... 179
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VI. Summary in Spanish ............................................................................................ 182
Capítulo 1: ............................................................................................................... 182
A. Introducción ......................................................................................................... 182
1. Preguntas principales de la investigación ........................................................ 183
B. Capítulo 2: Revisión de la literatura y el marco teórico ...................................... 183
1. Revisión de la literatura ................................................................................... 183
2. Marco teórico ................................................................................................... 184
C. Capítulo 3: Metodología ...................................................................................... 185
D. Capítulo 4: Análisis y discusión .......................................................................... 186
E. Capítulo 5: Conclusiones finales y futuras líneas de investigación..................... 187
VII. Researcher Profile ................................................................................................ 189
VIII. Works Cited ......................................................................................................... 192
IX. Appendices .......................................................................................................... 204
Appendix A: Observation 1 – Gap-fill listening test (full text) ................................... 204
Appendix B: Observation 1 – Gap-fill listening test (cloze text) ................................. 208
Appendix C: Observation 2 – Gap-fill listening test (full text).................................... 212
Appendix D: Observation 2 – Gap-fill listening test (cloze text) ................................ 214
Appendix E: Spotting List for Experimental Group Task............................................ 216
Appendix F: Educational Testing Service (ETS®) TOEIC ® License ........................ 222
Appendix G: TOEIC ® Listening and Reading Sample Test ...................................... 224
Appendix H: IED-related Newspaper Article .............................................................. 225
Appendix I: Amara Mutual Confidentiality and Nondisclosure Agreement ............... 228
Appendix J: Residuals from Statistical Analysis ......................................................... 232
Appendix K: Electronic Appendix ............................................................................... 232

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