Examining the effectiveness of bilingual subtitles for comprehension: An eye-tracking study

Abstract The present study examined the relative effectiveness of bilingual subtitles for L2 viewing comprehension, compared to other subtitling types. Learners’ allocation attention image and subtitles/captions in different conditions, as well relationship between were also investigated. A total 112 Chinese learners English watched an documentary clip one four conditions (bilingual subtitles, captions, L1 no subtitles) while their eye movements recorded. results revealed that beneficial which both outscored captions subtitles. Participants using spent significantly more time processing than lines. lines processed longer but shorter captions. No significant was found comprehension either or