CLOSED-CAPTIONED ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING

This dissertation has a two-fold purpose: One is to promote the used of closed-captioned videos for English as a Second Language ( ESL ) instruction. The second is to define, discuss and defend " Quantumtative " research - a personal " search " and " Re-search " methodology which has evolved from a modern day form of action teacher research and anthropological studies. Traditional ESL instruction accepts the idea that a student's ability to visualize text, to create mental picture of the letters, and of the whole word is important in comprehension. Closed-captioned videotext, with high audio video correlation allows learner to see the words, hear the word, and contextualize them all at the same time. This alone, and/or when combined with other strategies and methods can result in improved ESL instruction. Quantumtative Search and Re-search is an alternative to quantitative and qualitative methods. It is based on the premise that we live in a quantum world of random interactions rather than a Newtonian world of independent building blocks. Quantumtative Search and Re-search acknowledgments that throughout time homosapiens have searched and re-searched.

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Casado con Gail L Rowland, James L Rowland se graduó en el instituto Pullman, en Pullman, Washington. Tiene una licenciatura en Historia de la Universidad del Estado de Washington. Licenciado en inglés por la Universidad del Estado de Washington. Posgrado en el Master de Artes en Inglés de la Universidad del Estado de Washington.