Teaching Children English through Bilingual Picturebooks: A Popular Culture and Visual Language Case Study

Dukut, Ekawati Marhaenny and Utami, Maya Putri and Nugrahedi, Probo Y. and Putri, Novita Ika and Nugroho, Adi (2014) Teaching Children English through Bilingual Picturebooks: A Popular Culture and Visual Language Case Study. Teaching Children English through Bilingual Picturebooks: A Popular Culture and Visual Language Case Study¹. pp. 34-50. ISSN ISBN : 978-602-8011-69-3

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Abstract

Food is popular culture. What someone chooses to eat may be a reflection to the kinds of food popularized through e.g. advertisements on television (TV). It is believed that most children are TV addicts, so the kinds of food they like to eat may be influenced by what is on TV. Because of this, there is a research finding that 50% of children all over the world do not enjoy eating vegetables, although nutrient wise, vegetables are vital source of fiber nutrients for the body. A questionnaire distributed to children aged 5-8 years old at Don Bosco Kindergarten and Elementary School showed that a group of children is at a stage where eating vegetables is something they dislike. At the same time, however, it is also in this age group that learning the English language is best delivered. Based on this fact, some bilingual (Indonesian andEnglish) picturebooks are created to attract school-age children into consuming vegetables. Along with colorful and attractive vegetable cartoon characters, the simple Indonesian vocabularies with English translations written in the picturebook is believed to not only help children like to eat egetables, but more importantly it is also an interesting media to teach Indonesian children how to read and eventually speak English well. The sharing of knowledge in producing the picturebook, which is full of visual language, hopefully can inspire others that there is more to just having a profession as English language teachers.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	600 Technology (Applied sciences) > 660 Chemical engineering > 664 Food technology
Divisions:	Faculty of Language and Art
Depositing User:	ms F. Dewi Retnowati
Date Deposited:	04 Dec 2020 07:09
Last Modified:	04 Feb 2022 11:05
URI:	http://repository.unika.ac.id/id/eprint/22742

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