Metacognitive learning techniques in the user interface: Advance organizers and captioning

The use of metacognitive strategies of learning and instruction such as content abstracts or previews, subtitles and captioning (on-screen foreign language subtitles) have been recurrent pedagogical tools for facilitating foreign language (L2) instruction. New technology has broadened their scope and multiplied the ways in which they can be used in L2 computer-based applications. A pilot test was carried out using a hypermedia instructional application for Spanish: “Operación Futuro.” The test addresses the question of how two types of metacognitive strategies, written and spoken Advance Organizers (AOs) and verbatim Captioning (CP) may facilitate L2 comprehension and recall.

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