Effects of Redundancy of Multimedia Instruction on Spanish Reading and Listening Translation Skills

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Abstract

An experimental study investigated whether the redundancy principle of instructional multimedia could apply to learning second language (L2) translation skills, despite previous arguments it would not. One hundred college students in a within-subjects repeated-measures design learned Spanish reading and listening translation skills from multimedia that was redundant or non-redundant. Multilevel modeling showed that the non-redundant multimedia, following the redundancy principle, was best learned from for translation scores/subscores (of a composite of reading and listening, far transfer, and English-to-Spanish translation direction). Fluid intelligence and executive functioning did not moderate effects of redundancy, but did have direct positive effects on Spanish translation skills. These findings suggest future research on various multimedia formats for learning various L2 skills.

Author

• Charles Raffaele, New York University
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