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Harper, Ruth E.; Rogers, Lawrence E. – Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, 1999
Gives evidence of how and why feature films are effective instructional tools, particularly when teaching concepts of human development to college students. Explains that use of films helps to dramatize and frame issues, generate discussion, and provide links with personal experience. Uses several examples from movies to help explain the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Films, Higher Education
New York Univ., NY. Deafness Research and Training Center. – 1977
The paper reports results and discusses implications of three studies on captioning films and television programs for deaf audiences. Study I dealt with the short-term visual memory required in recognition of fingerspelled letters, while study II focused on serial position effects and forward making (interference produced by first stimulus on the…
Descriptors: Captions, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Deafness