The Effects of Using Advance Organizers and Captions to Introduce Video in the Foreign Language Classroom

Abstract

Foreign language teachers and students now have access to more video materials than ever before. This article explored two video instructional strategies, advance organizers and captions in the target language, to make the viewing experience profitable. After reviewing the relative effectiveness of various types of advance organizer and the advantages and disadvantages of using captioned video materials, a set of classroom procedures that combines advance organizers and captions to teach English as a foreign language is proposed.