James L Rowland

Closed-captioned English Language Learning: a Quantumtative Search and Re-search Study James L Rowland

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.