Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/3909
Title: Effect of Caption Rate on the Comprehension of Educational Television Programmes by Deaf School Students
Contributor(s): Tyler, Michael D (author); Jones, Caroline (author); Grebennikov, Leonid (author); Leigh, Greg (author); Noble, William G  (author); Burnham, Denis (author)
Publication Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1002/dei.262
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/3909
Abstract: Television captioning has great potential to provide deaf children with access to the audio track of programmes. However, use of captions may be limited by the lower English literacy skills of the deaf population compared to the general population. Here, we investigate how the rate of caption delivery affects the comprehension of educational programmes by better- and poorer-reading deaf school children. Participants watched three short documentaries, with captions presented at 90, 120, or 180 words per minute (wpm). Across both reading levels, comprehension was uniformly higher at 90 and 120 wpm than at 180 wpm. Independent of caption rate, better readers scored higher overall than poorer readers. These results suggest that the rate of captions in children's television programmes can safely use 120 wpm as a slowest speed. Future research should seek to pinpoint the optimal rate, which appears to lie between 120 and 180 wpm.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Deafness and Education International, 11(3), p. 152-162
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1464-3154
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 170103 Educational Psychology
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 930203 Teaching and Instruction Technologies
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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