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The Peppa Pig television series as input in pre‐primary EFL instruction: A corpus‐based study
Author(s) -
Scheffler Paweł,
Jones Christian,
Domińska Anna
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of applied linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.712
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1473-4192
pISSN - 0802-6106
DOI - 10.1111/ijal.12298
Subject(s) - english as a foreign language , computer science , linguistics , series (stratigraphy) , corpus linguistics , television series , foreign language , natural language processing , psychology , mathematics education , sociology , media studies , paleontology , philosophy , biology
The provision of instruction in English as a foreign language (EFL) is constantly being extended to include ever younger learners. As one of the challenges for pre‐primary EFL instruction is the delivery of a sufficient amount of appropriate input, the main aim of this article is to investigate one potential source of such input, namely an animated television series, in terms of its linguistic features and its suitability for use in pre‐primary instruction. More specifically, the article examines a corpus of 88 episode transcripts of the Peppa Pig series. It analyses the extent to which the data contain linguistic features which can also be found in another corpus of spoken English. Following the analysis, recommendations for integrating the series into pre‐primary English instruction are presented.