Learning English Vocabulary through VOA News Lessons: Being Exposed to Authentic Material or Electronic Colonialism
Publish place: Issues in Language Teaching، Vol: 10، Issue: 1
Publish Year: 1400
نوع سند: مقاله ژورنالی
زبان: English
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Teaching and learning languages via the Internet is becoming increasingly common all over the world and therefore, the experts growingly debate around the positive or negative effects of online education. The present study aimed to critically investigate into science and technology lessons of the VOA English Learning Website in a two-year interval, which claims to teach new words and phrases through the authentic VOA world news. Applying van Dijk’s (۱۹۹۸) Ideological Square Model of CDA, the researchers attempted to critically analyze the representation of the key term the United States within the collected VOA news story transcripts in order to observe whether the Website was trying to manipulate the learners’ minds through in-group favoritism and out-group derogation. The findings revealed that the VOA online lessons promoted certain American political, economic, cultural, social, and ideological values through particular discursive structures that tend to describe in-group members in a positive or at least neutral manner. Thus, as McPhail’s (۲۰۰۶) Electronic Colonialism Theory assumes such free online lessons on the VOA Website, which is a core country multimedia giant, struggle to convert and capture the attitudes, desires, beliefs, faiths, lifestyles, and consumer behavior of the other countries. Therefore, it is highly recommended that English teachers and learners try to inspect the content, reflect on the purposes, and evaluate the merits of similar online authentic materials before and while applying them to facilitate the language learning process.
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فائزه سلیمانی فرد
Department of English Language, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
بیوک بهنام
Department of English, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
سعیده آهنگری
English Department, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azd University, Tabriz, , Iran
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