This article discusses research into the role of audio-visual input for second language (L2)
or foreign language learning. It also addresses questions related to the effectiveness of …

In recent years, an increasing number of studies have focused on learning vocabulary from
audiovisual input. They have shown that learners can pick up new words incidentally when …

Recent research has shown that learners can learn new words while watching TV programs.
However, the number of words learned tends to be low. Several studies have demonstrated …

Welcome to the world of watching television programmes and films with subtitles in the same
language, or captions, as I shall call them in this book. If a reader who has never watched a …

This study aims at exploring the potential of extensive TV viewing for L2 vocabulary learning,
and the effects associated with the language of the on-screen text (L1 or L2), type of …

Multimodality has become a prominent concept in communication and language education
research, and pedagogic discourse in second language (L2) classrooms is fundamentally …

This paper investigates the effects of watching an entire season of a French series with the
streaming service Netflix in an out-of-classroom context. University Dutch-speaking low-to …

Audiovisual input has received increasing attention from the Second Language Acquisition
(SLA) and the Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) domains during the past few …

Television is considered an important source of comprehensible input for second language
learners of English and there is some evidence that L2 words can be learned incidentally by …

This study examined the effectiveness of bilingual subtitles relative to captions, subtitles, and
no subtitles for incidental vocabulary learning. Learners' processing of novel words in the …