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Using Open Captions to Revise Writing in Digital Stories Composed by d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
- American Annals of the Deaf
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 157, Number 4, Fall 2012
- pp. 340-357
- 10.1353/aad.2012.1626
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Using a nonexperimental design , the researchers explored the effect of captioning as part of the writing process of individuals who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing. Sixty-nine d/Deaf and hard of hearing middle school students composed responses to four writing-to-learn activities in a word processor. Two compositions were revised and published with software that displayed texts as captions to digital images; two compositions were revised with a word processor and published on paper. Analysis showed increases in content-area vocabulary, text length, and inclusion of main ideas and details for texts revised in the captioning software. Given the nonexperimental design, it is not possible to determine the extent to which the results could be attributed to captioned revisions. However, the findings do suggest that the images acted as procedural facilitators, triggering recall of vocabulary and details.