映画視聴における二言語字幕が注意配分と情報獲得に与える影響

抄録

This study investigated the influence of bilingual subtitles on attention allocation and comprehension while watching films with foreign language soundtracks. Eighty-eight college students whose native language was Chinese and second language English participated in the experiment. Two film clips, one with a low amount of scene information, another with a high amount of scene information, were used. Participants watched the clips in no subtitles, monolingual subtitles (Chinese) or bilingual subtitles (Chinese and English) condition, with their eye-movements recorded. An information test about the contents of the film was taken after watching each film clip. The results showed that when the film clip contained a lower amount of scene information, participants tend to spend more time reading English subtitles in bilingual subtitles, and the presence of bilingual subtitles might impair acquisition of scene information. We further discussed the results from the perspective of cognitive load theory.