The Effects of Using Two Advance Organizers with Video Texts for the Teaching of Listening in English

Abstract: Research has confirmed that exposing students to authentic materials through video aids language learning, especially listening skills. This study investigates the effects of two advance organizers — question previewing and vocabulary preteaching — on Taiwanese college students' listening comprehension of English‐language videotapes. Approximately 188 college students, randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups, viewed two video episodes, each twice. The results suggest that the group exposed to a combined treatment of vocabulary preteaching and question previewing between two video viewings outperformed the groups who received either the vocabulary preteaching alone or no treatment on both multiple‐choice and open‐ended tests. However, the effects of question previewing are likely to be assessment task‐dependent. The implications of the findings for listening instruction employing video in the EFL classroom are discussed.