Evaluating a Journal Article: "If You Can Read This, Thank TV"

Summary

The journal article that I choose to evaluate was called, "If You Can Read This, Thank TV" written by Milton Goldman. This article was about using captioned television to teach English to second language learners.
This tool allows the teacher to present the English language to foreign speakers in a visually stimulating avenue that will motivate students to learn through sounds, context, and the reading. This is a very rich and positive multi-sensory teaching tool. The use of captions is interesting and fundamentally important for students to get familiar with because it reaches students on so many sensory levels. It is interesting to note that when students become familiar with the television characters, they have a higher level of concentration for listening and reading the captions. The students are seeing, hearing, listening, reading, and participating along with the characters and captions. The activities in this article "include all aspects of language acq...