The Effect of Multimedia Gosses on L2 Listening Comprehension

The
present
study
examined
the
effect
of
multimedia
glosses
on
foreign
language
listening
comprehension.
To
this
end,
94
male
students
studying
at
Rasa
English
Institute
in
Tehran
were
selected
for
the
treatment.
The
participants
consisted
of
three
groups, and
each
group
was
randomly
assigned
to
one
of
the
following
treatment
conditions:
textual,
pictorial,
and
textual-pictorial
glossing.
They
were
given
a
vocabulary
pre-test
before
the
treatment.
The
purpose
of
this
test
was
to
exclude
the
words
which
were
already
familiar
to
the
participants
from
the
posttests.
Meanwhile,
a
listening
comprehension
post-test
was
administered
at
the
end
of
the
treatment
period.
To
investigate
the
effect
of
multimedia
glosses
on
listening
comprehension,
the
data
obtained
from
the
listening
comprehension
post-test
were
analyzed
using
one-way
ANOVA.
The
result
showed
that
textual-pictorial
glosses
had
a
significant
effect
on
listening
comprehension.
The
findings
of
this
study
may
have
implications
for
language
learners,
teachers,
researchers,
and
materials
developers.

Vocabulary
Learning,
Glosses,
Multimedia
Glosses,
CALL,
Listening
Comprehension