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Alternative Pedagogy of Using Caption Machine in Learning Vocabularies
One of the More updated vocabulary pedagogies might be the one that Dogan Yuksel 
and Belgin Tanriverdi (2009) had motioned in their study. They suggested that suing caption 
machine to teach vocabulary through movie playing should be an adoptable way. In their 
study, titled “Effects of watching captioned movie clip on vocabulary development of EFL 
learners,” they found out that students watching movie with caption machine will have more 
acquisitions of vocabularies that students watching movie without caption machine. Huang 
and Eskey’s (2000) similar research investigated the effects of closed captioned TV (CCTV) 
on the listening comprehension of intermediate ESL students. Their study revealed that 
captions improved not only listening understanding skills of college-level ESL students but 
also their general intellectual capacity and vocabulary development.

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The 2009 AE Conference Iso University, Kaohsiung
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Discussion for Updated Vocabulary Studies
This study has revealed the significantly differences between two types of vocabulary 
teaching methods. Moreover, it suggests the field workers in area of vocabulary teaching and 
learning that beside interactive approaches of role play should be applied and tested, several 
updated vocabulary teaching methodologies should also be applied and measured. For 
example, learning vocabularies through computer software has been suggested by many 
scholars (e.g., Beheydt, 1990). For example, Groot (2000) explains a program; called 
Computer Assisted Vocabulary Acquisition (CAVOCA) is accommodating and supportive to 
students’ learning, which was devised to support longer-term maintenance of functional 
words by presenting each one in several cautiously selected sentences and short text. 
In fact, John Read (2004) had also mentioned Ghadirian (2002), who had provided his 
Computer Assisted Vocabulary Acquisition (CAVOCA) pedagogies, which is “…a program 
developed by Ghadirian (2002) to select and order a series of texts to allow for multiple 
exposures to a set of target words in contexts with mostly familiar vocabulary.” (p. 155)