[mdo7]

So I found more evidence that your kids can benefit from watching subtitled tokusatsu shows (or any foreign language kids shows) with English subtitles. I just amended my opening post to include this addition. So here is the addition I added and mended.

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Originally Posted by mdo7

EDIT/ADDITION (as of 12/22/2020): There are more evidences of having a foreign language TV programs with English subtitles (or any localized subtitles depend on what language you speak and read and the region you lived in) can help your children not only practice their reading, but also enhance their intercultural awareness. I'll cite these evidences here:

Voicebox UK: Why switching the subtitle on is a sure-fire way to improve child literacy

The Conversation: Why children should be watching TV with the subtitles on

And I'll quote the article from The Conversation about the effect of foreign-language shows with English subtitles on children:

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Learning other languages

Watching foreign language films and television programmes with subtitles in their first language is a motivating way to support children as they begin learning other languages. Research shows that children can learn vocabulary and improve their proficiency in other languages incidentally, just by watching subtitled foreign language films and television programmes. Subtitles can also help them learn another language intentionally, as part of a course of study.

Watching subtitled foreign language films, television programmes and videos also has the key potential to improve children’s intercultural awareness. Internationally sourced programmes on British television for children are largely drawn from the US and research shows that children’s viewing is dominated by American content. As a result, children in the UK do not have much access to content produced in non-anglophone countries, at least not on their television screens.

Giving children greater access to high-quality, educational media content in other languages would give them opportunities to learn about the lives of children in other cultures and to identify with children who speak languages other than theirs.

Boosting children’s exposure to subtitled foreign language films and television programmes would be a simple, inexpensive way to promote their learning of other languages. Encouraging children to learn other languages is of crucial importance in the UK at the moment, given the decline in language learning over the past 20 years.

See, this justifies turning on Super Sentai, Ultraman, Showa-era Godzilla, and Gamera in Japanese with English subtitles for your kids.