Exploring Language Awareness through Students' Engagement in Language Play

Autor/in	Ahn, So-Yeon
Titel	Exploring Language Awareness through Students' Engagement in Language Play
Quelle	In: Language Awareness, 25 (2016) 1-2, S.40-54 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0965-8416
DOI	10.1080/09658416.2015.1122020
Schlagwörter	Metalinguistics; Discourse Analysis; Ethnography; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Immersion Programs; Asians; Foreign Countries; Language Usage; Metacognition; Learner Engagement; Humor; Adolescents; South Korea + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Metalanguage; Metasprache; Diskursanalyse; Ethnografie; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Immersionsprogramm; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Ausland; Sprachgebrauch; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Humoristische Darstellung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Korea; Republik
Abstract	The present study explores Korean students' demonstration of language awareness through their engagement in language play. Grounded in the understanding of the relationship between language play and an "engagement with language" (EWL) perspective, this ethnographic and discourse analytic study investigates how Korean students aged 11-15 engage in ludic language play in English immersion camps in South Korea and discusses how these episodes offer learners an opportunity to display their language awareness, particularly their EWL. The findings highlight the nature of students' play with language as closely connected to their language awareness, functioning as a metacognitive tool in language learning, and their conscious attention to the broader context, in which language use is negotiated, maintained, and reinforced. Overall, episodes of language play served as a potentially prime site for demonstration of language awareness in terms of forms, functions, and effects, as well as for the creation and negotiation of more meaningful interaction filled with collaborative and voluntary engagement. The study suggests that further investigation of the learners' engagement in language play could yield deeper insights into how learners display their knowledge and awareness of languages, explore the relationships among languages, and further identify themselves as competent users of multiple languages. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01