The Emergence of English as a Lingua Digital Within Chaos/Complexity Theory Framework
English has now become a digital language with the rise of the digital age, especially with Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and now due to COVID-19. Individuals’ interaction with the digital beings such as front camera, social media, and keyboards has allowed new words to emerge or caused some change...
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| description | English has now become a digital language with the rise of the digital age, especially with Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and now due to COVID-19. Individuals’ interaction with the digital beings such as front camera, social media, and keyboards has allowed new words to emerge or caused some changes in the existing words. Regarding these dynamic changes, Chaos/Complexity Theory brought to English language teaching (ELT) field by Diane Larsen-Freeman (1997) might provide explanations while shedding light on the construction or emergence of new words. In this article, Chaos/Complexity Theory is revisited first as a transdisciplinary theory and then along with its main features in language learning field. Then, English as a Lingua Digital is proposed as a new concept to be studied by future empirical studies. In this sense, this article is the first one proposing English as a Lingua Digital within Chaos/Complexity Theory. The ideas in this paper may be the leading topics ELT research in a very near future considering the fact that there are not enough empirical studies utilizing Chaos/Complexity Theory. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fe0a478542084de087e39fc4a6e0f0f12023-02-15T16:09:33ZengKaradeniz Technical UniversityNalans2148-40662020-06-0181499111188The Emergence of English as a Lingua Digital Within Chaos/Complexity Theory FrameworkHilal Pekerhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-3015Özkan Akkayahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0312-6851English has now become a digital language with the rise of the digital age, especially with Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and now due to COVID-19. Individuals’ interaction with the digital beings such as front camera, social media, and keyboards has allowed new words to emerge or caused some changes in the existing words. Regarding these dynamic changes, Chaos/Complexity Theory brought to English language teaching (ELT) field by Diane Larsen-Freeman (1997) might provide explanations while shedding light on the construction or emergence of new words. In this article, Chaos/Complexity Theory is revisited first as a transdisciplinary theory and then along with its main features in language learning field. Then, English as a Lingua Digital is proposed as a new concept to be studied by future empirical studies. In this sense, this article is the first one proposing English as a Lingua Digital within Chaos/Complexity Theory. The ideas in this paper may be the leading topics ELT research in a very near future considering the fact that there are not enough empirical studies utilizing Chaos/Complexity Theory.https://nalans.com/index.php/nalans/article/view/241english as a lingua digitalchaos/complexity theorylanguage learningcovid-19coronavirus |
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| title | The Emergence of English as a Lingua Digital Within Chaos/Complexity Theory Framework |
| title_full | The Emergence of English as a Lingua Digital Within Chaos/Complexity Theory Framework |
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| title_short | The Emergence of English as a Lingua Digital Within Chaos/Complexity Theory Framework |
| title_sort | emergence of english as a lingua digital within chaos complexity theory framework |
| topic | english as a lingua digital chaos/complexity theory language learning covid-19 coronavirus |
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