Potential Effect of Informal Learning of English Through Watching a Medical Television Series on the Development of Maritime Medical English Competence
As a result of the widespread use of online technologies and vast opportunities for the use of English in everyday online life, the field of online informal learning of languages, in particular English, has attracted a new wave of research attention. Nevertheless, the number of corpus studies in th...
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As a result of the widespread use of online technologies and vast opportunities for the use of English in everyday online life, the field of online informal learning of languages, in particular English, has attracted a new wave of research attention. Nevertheless, the number of corpus studies in this field remains low. More specifically, to date no research study has focused on the suitability of the language input to which online users are exposed while performing online activities with regard to the development of language skills in English as a language for specific purposes. In order to bridge this research gap, the objective of this paper is to apply the corpus approach to examine whether watching a medical television series may have an effect on the development of medical Maritime English for future deck officers. The results indicate that in terms of lexical density, lexical diversity, terminology, and word clusters, watching a medical television series may have a limited effect on the development of medical Maritime English for future deck officers. However, future research should examine whether watching television series may have an effect on the acquisition of typical speech patterns in spoken maritime communication, which are closely related to everyday spoken communication. Importantly, the results also seem to indicate that online informal learning of English cannot replace all segments of the formal learning of English for Specific Purposes, but can significantly contribute to the development of general English competence, which is a precondition for the further development of discipline-specific language competence.
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| spelling | doaj.art-892ab5097f524bf0ba1b0bb650826f7a2023-01-18T14:01:54ZdeuUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Vestnik za Tuje Jezike1855-84532350-42692021-12-0113110.4312/vestnik.13.445-465Potential Effect of Informal Learning of English Through Watching a Medical Television Series on the Development of Maritime Medical English CompetenceVioleta Jurkovič0University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport, Portorož, Slovenia As a result of the widespread use of online technologies and vast opportunities for the use of English in everyday online life, the field of online informal learning of languages, in particular English, has attracted a new wave of research attention. Nevertheless, the number of corpus studies in this field remains low. More specifically, to date no research study has focused on the suitability of the language input to which online users are exposed while performing online activities with regard to the development of language skills in English as a language for specific purposes. In order to bridge this research gap, the objective of this paper is to apply the corpus approach to examine whether watching a medical television series may have an effect on the development of medical Maritime English for future deck officers. The results indicate that in terms of lexical density, lexical diversity, terminology, and word clusters, watching a medical television series may have a limited effect on the development of medical Maritime English for future deck officers. However, future research should examine whether watching television series may have an effect on the acquisition of typical speech patterns in spoken maritime communication, which are closely related to everyday spoken communication. Importantly, the results also seem to indicate that online informal learning of English cannot replace all segments of the formal learning of English for Specific Purposes, but can significantly contribute to the development of general English competence, which is a precondition for the further development of discipline-specific language competence. https://journals.uni-lj.si/Vestnik/article/view/10118informal learning of EnglishMaritime Englishmedical Maritime Englishcorpus approach |
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| title | Potential Effect of Informal Learning of English Through Watching a Medical Television Series on the Development of Maritime Medical English Competence |
| title_full | Potential Effect of Informal Learning of English Through Watching a Medical Television Series on the Development of Maritime Medical English Competence |
| title_fullStr | Potential Effect of Informal Learning of English Through Watching a Medical Television Series on the Development of Maritime Medical English Competence |
| title_full_unstemmed | Potential Effect of Informal Learning of English Through Watching a Medical Television Series on the Development of Maritime Medical English Competence |
| title_short | Potential Effect of Informal Learning of English Through Watching a Medical Television Series on the Development of Maritime Medical English Competence |
| title_sort | potential effect of informal learning of english through watching a medical television series on the development of maritime medical english competence |
| topic | informal learning of English Maritime English medical Maritime English corpus approach |
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