Enhance sustainability and environmental protection awareness: agency in Chinese informal video learning

IF 0.7 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Language Learning in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI:10.1515/cercles-2023-2005

Ting Huang

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Abstract Protecting the environment is an important topic. In this study, college Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) students engaged in an agentive process of informally learning the Chinese language and culture by watching The Mermaid, a movie produced in China in 2016, which focuses on sustainability. Informal learning is recognized as one of the most powerful factors in Foreign Language (FL) development (Furlong and Davies 2012). Limited research on informal CFL learning from watching online videos is available (Huang and Lammers 2018). By using key ideas of agency, mediation, and internalization in SocioCultural Theory (SCT), this qualitative case study found that informal video learning from watching The Mermaid was helpful for learning vocabulary, grammar, and cultural values in sustainability topics. By means of semi-structured interviews, observations, recalls, and documents as data, the findings suggest that using real-world movies such as The Mermaid as an environmental sustainability topic had a positive impact on FL education. Demonstrating their agencies, learners engaged in vocabulary, grammar, and cultural value learning. This study offers pedagogical implications for language learning in Higher Education. Language Centers can therefore play a role in engaging campuses in social topics such as environmental protection.

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增强可持续性和环境保护意识：中国非正式视频学习中的代理

保护环境是一个重要的课题。在本研究中，大学对外汉语学生通过观看2016年中国制作的以可持续发展为主题的电影《美人鱼》，参与了非正式学习中国语言和文化的代理过程。非正式学习被认为是外语发展中最重要的因素之一(Furlong and Davies 2012)。关于通过观看在线视频学习非正式CFL的研究有限(Huang and Lammers 2018)。本定性个案研究运用社会文化理论(SCT)中中介、调解和内化的关键思想，发现观看《美人鱼》的非正式视频学习有助于学习可持续主题中的词汇、语法和文化价值观。通过半结构化访谈、观察、回忆和文件作为数据，研究结果表明，使用真实世界的电影如《美人鱼》作为环境可持续性主题对外语教育有积极的影响。学习者在词汇、语法和文化价值学习中展示了他们的能动性。本研究为高等教育的语言学习提供了教学启示。因此，语言中心可以在吸引校园参与环境保护等社会话题方面发挥作用。

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Language Learning in Higher Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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期刊介绍： Language Learning in Higher Education deals with the most relevant aspects of language acquisition at university. The CercleS journal presents the outcomes of research on language teaching, blended learning and autonomous learning, language assessment as well as aspects of professional development, quality assurance and university language policy. Its aim is to increase the quality of language teaching and learning programmes offered by university language centers and other providers in higher education by presenting new models and by disseminating the best results of research activities carried out at language centers and in other higher education departments.