Noticing and intake of formulaic sequences in L2 subtitles: an eye-tracking study on the effects of genre and input enhancement

Abstract

[eng] The present study explores the effects of input enhancement and genre on the noticing and intake of formulaic sequences in the context of captioned videos. It involves 31 Catalan-Spanish English learners. Highlighted groups outperformed non-highlighted ones at the posttest, showing that input enhancement leads to the increase in intake. The non-fiction groups showed higher degree of noticing, suggesting that participants tend to focus on the textual part more for this genre. It is further inferred that genre and highlighting can have an impact on participants behavior in terms of noticing and potentially, intake. The results are interpreted in terms of the Cognitive Load Theory and the Noticing Hypothesis.