Multimedia Annotation: Comparability of Gloss Modalities and their Implications for Reading Comprehension

摘要: This study compared the effects of two annotation modalities on reading comprehension Iranian intermediate level EFL learners. The experimental groups under received treatment 10 academic L2 passages one conditions: One group key words in through a multimedia environment providing textual annotations. second similar but compound glosses. control group, however, no and was encouraged to use contextual guessing. findings revealed that who glosses outperformed other test, used annotations obtained higher mean post-test than group. explanation is might help learners better decipher meanings passages, thus contributing their deeper understanding texts.