文档介绍：THE EFFECTS OF CHINESE AND ENGLISH
SUBTITLES ON ENGLISH LEARNERS’
VOCABULARY ACQUISITION

By
Huang Lin

Under The Supervision of
Dr. Hu Jian

A thesis
submitted in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Arts to the School of Foreign Studies
Anhui University

April 2009
Acknowledgements
I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to a number of
people who have offered me much help with my thesis.
My sincere gratitude first goes to my supervisor Dr. Hu Jian for her
encouragement and expert supervision.
I am grateful to all the other professors and teachers who have instructed me
during my postgraduate studies. Special thanks are extended to Professor Zhu Yue,
Professor Zhou Fangzhu, Professor Zhang Ming, Dr. Zhu Xiaomei and Dr. Zhang
Hongxia. Without their inspiring lectures, I would never have had the ability to write
the thesis.
I also thank Miss Qian Yeqin who has given me great help in the selection of
subjects and the implementation of the experiment. I am also grateful to the students
who participated in the research. They are so kind and considerate that they took part
in the experiment enthusiastically and seriously. Without their cooperation, my
research would have been impossible to pleted.
Last but not least, I would like to express my thanks to all those who have helped
me in pletion of this thesis.

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Abstract
With the development of multimedia technology and the wide spread of
computers, videos in the target language are widely used in second language teaching
classrooms. Many researches on listening to videotext have found that subtitles can
help learners identify words in the video, enhance prehension of the content
and memorize the lines of the video. But there is still no consensus on the application
of source language subtitles and target language subtitles in multimedia