![]() ![]() (As of this writing, YouTube is preparing to change it so that you’d have to contact the creator first, and they’d confirm you as a reliable source before granting access to their subtitles). If you have access to YouTube in your part of the world, your students can actually add subtitles to uploaded videos if the creator allows it. Video aimed towards younger kids, therefore, are probably not the best here. It’s also good for the video to have at least a few longer sentences (otherwise the challenge is gone). But it’s important that the original audio be spoken by native English speakers or people who are otherwise fluent in English. Ideally, the content of the videos would interest the students, and the language would be at a level a little above the students’ take into consideration the speed of speech, the length of the average sentence, and the type of vocabulary (is it too technical?). It’s up to the teacher whether the students should do full closed captioning or just subtitles.Įach student should write the captions for a different videos, and the videos should last somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes long (if the full video is longer, students can just consider a section of it). With closed captions, student will need to describe the sounds they hear, Closed Captions include not only the spoken words, but sounds as well, including music and sound effects. Subtitles display everything in written form everything that is spoken in the video, and that’s it. Once you’ve shown your class the list of Line Treatment principles, you may want to review some of the parts of speech (or even the Intro to Clauses) with your class. Check out Netflix’s guidelines for more details on what to do and what not to do. Since that’s not always feasible, students will have to consider other places to put line breaks and block breaks. If it’s possible, try to place the break between clauses. But it shouldn’t come in the middle of a phrase, either. Obviously, a break shouldn’t come in the middle of a word. The question is, then, how do you break a sentence into two (or more) blocks? Even with medium-length sentences, where should the line break go? Since it’s bad practice to have more than two lines of text in a block, you’ll need to break that sentence into two (or possibly even three) different blocks. If you try to put them into one block, they might spill into a third line, or possibly even more. The longer sentences are the tricky ones. A block might even have three or four sentences if they are very short and all in a row. Shorter sentences might stand on their own, or they could be bundled with an average-length sentence before or after, meaning that block of text would contain two sentences. Therefore, a block of text is often one sentence. Each block should have one or two lines of text.Ī line, by the way, should contain a maximum of 42 characters.Īn average sentence (depending on the speaker, the topic, and the milieu) might take the full length of a single line, or might spill over into a second line. Once the speaker reaches the last word of the text, another block appears as the speaker continues. One block of text appears as a speaker starts talking, then stays on the screen for a few seconds. We use the term ‘block’ here to mean all of the text that is displayed at the same instance. The more prevalent issue is figuring out when to close one block of text and open another. Students might even need to turn to a dictionary for help on issues like these. If you can narrow the possible word down to a few options, deciphering the right word first comes down to knowing which part of speech is appropriate, then, understanding which word makes the most sense in context. Or perhaps the speaker was speaking too quietly, fast, or incoherently that the inarticulate sounds are difficult to make out. But it’s not uncommon to hear something that could be one of multiple words that sound similar. Hopefully, most of the words spoken will be clear. One problem you may run into is deciphering the correct word. All you have to do is write down what you hear, right? Clearly, that’s the base task, but it’s not as easy as it seems, and it doesn’t end there. Writing subtitles or closed captions probably seems straightforward at first. ![]()
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