Learning English by walking down the street

Learner Autonomy in Developing Countries

“…Although other contexts in the developing world may be much worse off, she argues that the EFL setting, where English is rarely used in the social environment, makes the lack of attractive supplementary learning resources relatively acute. In fact, this situation is changing rapidly, as English is increasingly used in public advertising and signage (Chern & Dooley, 2014) and mobile phone-based internet services spread rapidly through the country (see above), but teachers are not trained to exploit this material and may feel that venturing into these unfamiliar domains could undermine their authority as the fount of language knowledge.…”

Toward an Embodied Systemic Functional Linguistics Pedagogy

“…In the larger field of multimodality and second language learning, embodiment is approached through exploratory practice (Allwright & Hanks, 2009;Hanks, 2015aHanks, , 2015b, literacy walks (Chern & Dooley, 2014), poetry (Newfield & D'abdon, 2015), drama (Cannon, 2017), and other out-of-school literacies such as video gaming (Sayer & Ban, 2014). While not always explicitly attentive to the concept itself, these studies make an important contribution to the embodied turn in language education (Nevile, 2015), as they illustrate how engagement with the physical-material world facilitates the production of meaning and knowledge.…”

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“…Sayer (2010) and Chern and Dooley (2014), although focused on the presence of English in LL, argue that public signs can serve as resources in language teaching. Figures 3 and 4 present interesting angles on the pedagogical contribution of linguistic landscape.…”