‘Pic-Mix Discovery’ Model to Cultivate Cultural Understanding and Multiliteracies in Teaching English for Young Learners  

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Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 1, page 307-312.
Topik: pic-mix discovery model; cultural understanding; multiliteracies; teaching English for young learners
Fulltext: hal 307.pdf (16.58MB)

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Being multi-literate is emerged to be achieved by today’s EFL students, from primary education to higher education.Here, primary education, in this case teaching English for young learners is chosen as the object. One of ways to endorse the young learners being multi-literate is by using media, such as digital children stories. The stories may provide some information via visual, audio and motion, which is culture-bound context. It means that the stories told represent certain cultures either western or eastern and need to be entirely understood. Therefore, multiliteracies and cultural understanding can be simultaneously achieved.This paper extremely offers a conceptual idea of pic-mix discovery modelconsisting of picture series combined with digital stories to cultivatemultiliteracies and cultural understanding in teaching English for the fifth graders. Some studies support that teaching English for young learners by using pictures and sequence pictures is successful and effective (Hasanah, 2013; Mansourzadeh, 2014) and some studies also confirm on the effectiveness of using video of animated stories for TEYL (Yildirin& Torun, 2013; Devi, 2012). These previous studies are considered as the basis for proposed implementation of pic-mix discovery model in TEYL. Accordingly, culture inserted as content is target and local culture. It is the way to cultivate young learners’ cultural understanding, in order to achieve basic cultural understanding (awareness) developed by Baker (2012). Again, this model is, then, to cultivate young learners’ multi-literacies, since listening, speaking, reading, and writing can be achievedsimultaneously.The implementation of pic-mix discovery model covers two parts: the procedure of using digital children stories and the procedure of pic-mix discovery model.Hopefully, thesemediahelp the students improve their four English skills through kinds of objects shown and make them multi-literate with a change in viewing the culture.

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