• Researchers have further indicated that videos with captions facilitate vocabulary acquisition (Plass, et al. 1998), reading (Chun & Plass, 1997), and listening comprehension (Markham & McCarthy, 2001). Opponents of the use of subtitled video in foreign/second language teaching argue that the presence of subtitles is distracting and that they slow down the development of learners' listening abilities. Proponents of subtitles, on the other hand, contend that subtitles may help develop language proficiency by enabling learners to be conscious of language that they might not otherwise understand (Borras & Lafayette, 1994).