The Impact of Children’s You Tube Videos on English Language Socialization and Acquisition in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Layli Hamida ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Socialization ◽  
English Language Development ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Media ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
The Impact

This study aims at describing how the use of English on youtube videos play a significant role in the socialization and acquisition of the language for children in Indonesia. It particularly focuses on the depiction of how the media serve a platform for children’s English language development and socialization and whether parents or other adults’ accommodation reinforces or counteracts the language. Ethnographic interviews were conducted on five middle class parents with children of 3-5 years of age so as to collect information on children and parents’ everyday practices with the media. The findings suggest that parents’ beliefs and ideologies on foreign language socialization as well as their English proficiency lead to their primary support for English. Their everyday media consumption and communication practices with children show how arenas provided by parents have turned into an assumed form of scaffolding in the way that children reflect on the language collected from the media. The research indicates that global practices of English on the internet intersect with local practices of language socialization.

scholarly journals A culture of collaboration: Forms and factors affecting collaboration between NESTs and NNESTs in extracurricular English activities

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-84
Author(s):  
Grace B. Wivell
Keyword(s):  
Team Teaching ◽  
English Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
English Language Development ◽  
Host Institution ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Interpersonal Factors ◽  
Research Plan ◽  
Or Team ◽  
The Impact

Fulbright English Teaching Assistants (ETAs) assist local English teachers to further the English language development of students around the globe, while simultaneously acting as cultural ambassadors for the United States. ETAs in Indonesia are required to spend between twenty and twenty-five hours each week in the classroom with their teaching counterpart(s) but are also encouraged to engage with their school and community outside of class, and as such many ETAs also spend considerable time developing extracurricular English programming. While some of these extracurriculars are facilitated independently by the ETAs, many are collaborative projects with counterparts from the host institution. As part of a larger five-year research plan initiated by the American Indonesian Exchange Foundation (AMINEF) that seeks to explore the impact of ETAs, this research explores the collaboration within these extracurriculars. It seeks to identify the forms that this collaboration takes, as well as the factors that affect the collaboration. The findings suggest that collaboration within these extracurriculars usually takes the form of either one teach – one assist model, or team teaching, and that logistical and interpersonal factors are of the greatest concern within the collaboration.

scholarly journals Functions of English-Language Borrowings in Russian and Italian (on the Basis of Radio Discourse)

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
E. V. Volkova ◽  
A. A. Khustenko ◽  
E. A. Sherina
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Lexical Structure ◽  
The Media ◽  
Strong Position ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Dynamic Phenomena

The process of borrowing English words in Russian and Italian is discussed in the article. Particular attention is paid to the communicative-pragmatic analysis of the peculiarities of the use of Anglicisms in radio speeches. In the study of dynamic language processes, the media and communication have traditionally been the main sources of replenishment of the lexical structure of the language, including through foreign borrowing. The relevance of this work is determined both by the increased scientific interest in comprehension of active language processes in recent decades, and the linguists refer to comparative studies of dynamic phenomena in systems of different languages in order to identify similar or different processes in them, due to national linguistic specificity. A review of the scientific literature on various aspects of the study of borrowing in the analyzed languages is performed, the choice of material is substantiated, and research methods are described. The results of a comparative analysis of Russian and Italian radio speeches are presented. It is established that English-language borrowings have an extensive set of functions that are auxiliary in relation to the system-forming function of radio discourse - the impact on the target audience. It is proved that the coincidence of the main borrowing functions in the radio discourse of the analyzed countries is due to the strong position of the English language as a universal international means of communication.

scholarly journals Strategies for Teaching English Abroad: The Immersion Classroom

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Ishrat Suri
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Cultural Competency ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Development ◽  
Language Immersion ◽  
Immersion Programs ◽  
Daunting Challenge ◽  
Immersion Classroom ◽  
The Impact ◽  
International English

English language development is best laid on the foundation of natural and social interactions which requires a great deal of sacrifice from educators who teach abroad (Snow, 1997). Learning to speak a new language grants learners a passport and highly coveted citizenship to a culturally interconnected world (Met & Lorenz, 1993); however, educators often face a daunting challenge. They must come up with comprehensive strategies which ensure that learners obtain requisite skills faster than might otherwise be deemed necessary. They must also employ non-verbal communication in place of the native language and secure a total commitment from students (Fortune, 2000). Finally, educators must leverage the brain’s information processing and retention ability against a very formidable threat: forgetting. The paper focuses on language immersion classroom strategies currently being used around the world, along with a discussion on how technology has been used to increase language and cultural competencies. This research has implications for educators and administrators who are interested in the impact that technology access has on learning when paired with a total immersion approach. This paper will present recommendations for international English language immersion programs, whose  goals are to develop a total cultural competency for students aged 5-25 in environments where there are limited resources to aid in language immersion.

Interactive Whiteboards and the Normalization of CALL

2011 ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Euline Cutrim Schmid
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Interactive Whiteboards ◽  
Interactive Whiteboard ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Impact

This chapter discusses the concept of integrated CALL by drawing upon data collected for a PhD research project that investigated the impact of interactive whiteboard (IWB) technology in the English language classroom. In the first part, the chapter presents and discusses data which indicate that the IWB technology represents a further step towards the integrated phase in the development of CALL envisioned by Bax (2003). According to Bax, this refers to the stage when the computer becomes invisible, embedded in the everyday practices of the educational context in which it is used—that is, the computer becomes normalized. In the second part, the chapter discusses one factor that inhibited the complete normalization of IWB technology in the context investigated. The chapter concludes by making suggestions for further research.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of News and Analytical English-Language Media Texts About Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01137
Author(s):  
Yulia Yuzhakova ◽  
Liliya Polyakova ◽  
Elena Suvorova ◽  
Tatiana Emets
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Impact Function ◽  
The Media ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Linguistic Means

The article is devoted to the consideration of peculiarities of the English-language news and analytic media texts about Russia, which contribute to the formation of a certain attitude towards this country. It is noted that the scope of media texts in English prevails in the global information space, which cannot but affect the viewpoint of the “average” English speaking reader. The notion of ideological modality, which is often present in media texts about Russia, is considered. The media text compositional peculiarities and linguistic means are described in connection with the impact function implementation and the certain attitude towards Russia formation.

scholarly journals The Significance of English Language Development for Future Asian Tourism and Hotel Management Professionals

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Hui Zou ◽  
Stephanie Isabel Molina Ramirez ◽  
Mayra Alexandra Cuenca Erazo ◽  
Maria Asuncion Rojas Encalada
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Language Development ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Development ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Hotel Management ◽  
English Fluency ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The present study is a systematic review that explores existent research on the significance of developing English at schools and universities, and the impact of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses to acquire specialized English for businesses, mainly on the Asian Tourism and Hotel Management sector. Because of ESP complexity, it is recommended to be taught to students of intermediate-advanced English level. Consequently, future professionals will be capable of communicating in the target language around the world and be ready to take these specialized English courses.  It also considers the advantages of having appropriate English fluency in the Tourism and Hotel Management sector, and the disadvantages of not having English fluency in this field.

The impact of the media on the decision of parents in South Wales to accept measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) immunization

2014 ◽  
Vol 143 (3) ◽  
pp. 550-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. WALSH ◽  
D. Rh. THOMAS ◽  
B. W. MASON ◽  
M. R. EVANS
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
Pressure Groups ◽  
Outbreak Area ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Health Response ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

SUMMARYA large measles outbreak occurred in South Wales in 2012/2013. The outbreak has been attributed to low take-up of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) immunization in the early 2000s. To understand better the factors that led to this outbreak we present the findings of a case-control study carried out in the outbreak area in 2001 to investigate parents' decision on whether to accept MMR. Parents who decided not to take-up MMR at the time were more likely to be older and better educated, more likely to report being influenced by newspapers [adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 3·07, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1·62–5·80], television (aOR 3·30, 95% CI 1·70–6·43), the internet (aOR 7·23, 3·26–16·06) and vaccine pressure groups (aOR 5·20, 95% CI 2·22–12·16), and less likely to be influenced by a health visitor (aOR 0·30, 95% CI 0·16–0·57). In this area of Wales, daily English-language regional newspapers, UK news programmes and the internet appeared to have a powerful negative influence. We consider the relevance of these findings to the epidemiology of the outbreak and the subsequent public health response.

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