Same-Language-Subtitling (SLS) is the simple idea of subtitling the lyrics of musical videos in the same language in which they are sung. Call it 'Broadway Karaoke', or 'MTV Karaoke', or in India --Bollywood for mass reading!  A deceptively simple innovation, SLS is already delivering regular and inescapable reading practice to 150 million progressing-readers in India and around the world.                 SLS is providing quality subtitling in the same language as the audio portion of a video, with each word highlighted as the words are spoken or sung, in karaoke style. Karaoke style highlighting tends to be highly synchronized to the audio model and provides explicit relationship between the audio and text. Research shows that mere exposure to SLS causes automatic and inescapable reading practice amongst viewers. Where SLS is used in popular media, literacy rates in primary school children have doubled. Internationally, there is increased popularity to the use of SLS in mass media. SLS can commonly be found on Finish, Indian and Japanese television. In the United States increased usage can be seen on the Disney Channel and in commercial marketing but rare usage in most media targeted at children.               The problem with SLS is this idea straddles both education and mass media and both sides do not really see the potential --accepting commercial design people who seem to be paying attention to the increased impacts of music combined with text. What I see is a massive consumption of music video by children and an opportunity similar to adding vitamins to bread. SLS provides multiple learning opportunities for my students both as viewers and as producers of media --- creating karaoke subtitled media is a highly engaging project. As you explore this site please remember that most video samples you find here were created by 9th grade students.                                                                                                                                                                    Recently, the Disney Channel has begun experimenting with dynamic subtitling.   <<<<This is a good example of proffesionally rendered typography.     SLS subtitling includes various formats of subtitling: Karaoke, Typography, Captioning, Dynamic Text, Bouncing Ball etc.   Important elements of SLS: Embedded Text (Text can't be turned on or off --often called 'Hard Subtitling) Accurate text (Matching the audio) Accurate synchronization (Karaoke style or Bouncing Ball allows for a closer synchronization between audio and text) Clear Audio Engaging Media       SLS can also be used with student created media projects. <<<<<<<< Most of the samples you will find on this site or on my Youtube channel were done by beginning level, remedial reading students <<<<<<<<<<<     Same-Language-Subtitling On YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/zwgm    Same-Language-Subtitling... On FaceBook: Welcome! This site is dedicated to research and use of: Same-Language-Subtitling.   Same-Language-Subtitling zwgm's Channel Subscribe                                                                                                                                     Further explanations and more student made sample videos           What is the difference between Closed Captioning and Dynamic Subtitling?  .             How can this be used to impact reading? See research and classroom usage                                                           If your computer can't access Youtube--please take a look at videos on www.myLearningtube.com or www.dailymotion.com on bottom of this page. Please note: That in the SLS format, 'subtitling' refers to the high quality captioning of the audio model in the same language as the audio model. There are many different terms for types of subtitling: Captioning, Closed-Captioning, Subtitling, Titling, Surtitling, Read-a-long, Sing-a-long, Karaoke, animated text, dynamic captioning, kinetic typography, et cetera. There is also a  wide range in quality of the 'audio-to-visual' synchronization. How well does the visual representation match the audio model? SLS attempts to use high quality Karaoke-style captioning technologies to strengthen the relationship between the audio and visual representations of language. Music and engagement activities (such as Cloze Worksheets) provide the reward and the repetitions --a teacher then shapes the activity to target a students' needs!

What is Same-Language-Subtitling?

•         SLS is the high quality captioning of video

      in the same language as the audio. 

•         SLS uses Open Captioning with karaoke-style subtitling

      and strong dynamic audio.  

•         SLS can also use Close-Captioned Subtitling,

      Dynamic Captioning, and Kinetic Typography.

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