ELEMENTS OF POPULAR CULTURE IN TEACHING SENTENCE PATTERNS AND VERBAL CATEGORIES TO STUDENTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
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teaching grammar, English, popular culture, undergraduate grammar course, sentence pattern, verb phrase, grammar rule, student feedback
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The paper deals with the application of elements of present-day popular culture in teaching certain elements of grammar to first-year undergraduate students of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. Preceded by a theoretical discussion of implicit/explicit and descriptive/prescriptive grammar teaching at the university level, the paper introduces elements of popular culture as a motivating factor and connective tissue to teach numerous grammar rules otherwise often perceived by students as uninteresting and difficult to understand, memorize and apply. In order to illustrate and reinforce the point that grammar is made more comprehensible when its rules and principles, their correct or incorrect use, are explained through examples from present-day popular culture, a selection of language units is extracted from films, cartoons, comic strips, TV series, talk shows and song lyrics, most of which are well-known to Millennial students. Employing qualitative methodology, various uses of elements of popular culture implemented in teaching grammar are extensively described and analyzed, while two of the students’ answers in the e-survey were also analyzed quantitatively. This research is expected to demonstrate, explain and systematize the various ways in which the teaching process exploits grammatically relevant examples from widely known works of contemporary popular culture. The authors’ presumptions about the effectiveness of introducing elements of popular culture are reinforced by the results of a short survey carried out in order to obtain feedback from students who attended the courses English Grammar 1 and English Grammar 2.
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Panić Kavgić, O. V., & Kavgić, A. ELEMENTS OF POPULAR CULTURE IN TEACHING SENTENCE PATTERNS AND VERBAL CATEGORIES TO STUDENTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY, 45(5), 251–279. https://doi.org/10.19090/gff.2020.5.251-279
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available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUIJ9pBDlHs
Cartoon Stock, available at www.cartoonstock.com
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DreamWorks Animation, available at: www.dreamworks.com
Hi and Lois, available at https://www.comicskingdom.com/hi-and-lois
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Pixar Animation Studios, available at: www.pixar.com
South Park Studios, available at: https://southpark.cc.com/
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The Simpsons, available at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6v9JbzcdEcZsXcVpBsMq-g
A number of pictures, photographs and captions in this article have been downloaded from Google Images and Google Videos. The authors of the paper do not lay any claim on the authorship of the images – they were utilized here for illustrative purposes within the common practice of fair use in academic research.
REFERENCES
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Chalker, S. (1992). A Student’s English Grammar Workbook. London: Longman.
Close, R. (1974). A University Grammar of English Workbook. London: Longman.
Cortazzi, M.–Lin, L. (1999). Cultural mirrors. In: Hinkel, E. (ed.). (1999). Culture in Second Language Teaching and Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 196–219.
Ćurčić, J. (2016). Popularna kultura kao motivaciono sredstvo u srednjoj školi. (Nepublikovan masterski rad). Filozofski fakultet, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Novi Sad.
Dejić, V. (2013). Tehnike podučavanja gramatike engleskog jezika u osnovnim školama. (Nepublikovan masterski rad). Filozofski fakultet, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Novi Sad.
Duff, P. A.–Zappa-Hollman, S. (2013). Using popular culture in language teaching. In: Chapelle, C. A. (ed.). (2013). The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 5997–6002.
Dujić, R. (2016). Kreativni pristup nastavi gramatike engleskog jezika na nivoima A1 i A2 (Nepublikovan masterski rad). Filozofski fakultet, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Novi Sad.
Đurić, R.–Šević, R. B. (2001). English Grammar Introductory Course: Workbook. Novi Sad: Filozofski fakultet.
Đurić, R.–Šević, R. B. (2006). A Student’s Workbook of English Grammar. Novi Sad: Filozofski fakultet, Futura publikacije.
Gajdoš, S.–Korpaš, O. (2019). Teaching English tenses through popular movies – a case study. Zbornik Odseka za pedagogiju, 28, 137–160.
Glušac, T.–Pilipović, V. (2019). Pedagoška uverenja studenata engleskog jezika – podložnost promeni i izvori promena. Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Prištini, 49/1, 69-88.
Graus, J.–Coppen, P. (2016) Student teacher beliefs on grammar instruction. Language Teaching Research, 20/5, 571–599.
Greenbaum, S.–Quirk, R. (1990). A Student’s Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.
Harmer, J. (2003). Popular culture, methods, and context. ELT Journal, 57/3, 288–294.
Hewings, M. (2013). Advanced Grammar in Use. Third Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hofmann, J. (2018). Pixar films, popular culture, and language teaching: The potential of animated films for Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Global Studies of Childhood, 8/3, 267–280.
Hua, C.–Li, B. (2015). Bringing fun and meaning into grammar learning: A case study of a secondary-level EFL class in Hong Kong. Cogent Education, 2. doi:10.1080/2331186X.2015.1111039
Kirby, D. (1976). Popular culture in the English classroom. The English Journal, 65/3, 32–34.
Lefstein, A.–Snell, J. (2011). Promises and problems of teaching with popular culture: A linguistic ethnographic analysis of discourse genre mixing in a literacy lesson. Reading Research Quarterly, 46/1, 40–69.
Liu, Y.–Lin, A. M. Y. (2017). Popular culture and teaching English to speakers of other language (TESOL). In: Thorne, S. and May, A. (eds.). (2017). Language, Education and Technology. Third Edition. Berlin: Springer. 87–102.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English on CD-ROM. Updated Edition. (2009). Harlow: Pearson Longman.
Luo, J. J. (2014). Using popular culture to promote learning in EFL classrooms: A case study. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Studies, 112, 209–218.
Marjanović, T. (2017). English lessons from the Big Bang Theory. In: Parezanović, T.-Budinčić, V. & Karić, D. B. (eds.). (2017). Language, Literature, and Popular Culture. Proceedings from the Fifth International Conference at the Faculty of Foreign Languages: Language, Literature, and Popular Culture, 30 September – 1 October 2016. Beograd: Alfa BK University. 25–48.
Nedić, J. (2014). Primena vizuelnih sredstava u nastavi gramatike engleskog jezika na osnovnoškolskom nivou (Nepublikovan masterski rad). Filozofski fakultet, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Novi Sad.
Novakov, P. (2012). Studije anglistike u reformisanoj univerzitetskoj nastavi. U: Dimitrijević, B. (ured.) (2012). Filologija i univerzitet. Tematski zbornik radova. [Nauka i savremeni univerzitet 1]. Niš: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Nišu. 630–650.
Panić Kavgić, O. (2014). Jezička kreativnost u formiranju filmskih naslova na engleskom jeziku i njihovom prevođenju na srpski. U: Prćić, T.-Marković, M. i dr. (ured.). (2014). Engleski jezik i anglofone književnosti u teoriji i praksi. Zbornik u čast Draginji Pervaz. Novi Sad: Filozofski fakultet. 399–418.
Panić Kavgić, O.–Kavgić, A. (2018). Creativity in film taglines: Extralinguistic, textual and linguistic analysis. Godišnjak Filozofskog fakulteta u Novom Sadu, 43/1, 101–125.
Phipps, S.–Borg, S. (2009). Exploring tensions between teachers’ grammar teaching beliefs and practices. System, 37/3, 380–390.
Quirk, R.–Greenbaum, S. (1973). A University Grammar of English. London: Longman.
Rets, I. (2016). Teachers’ perceptions on using popular culture when teaching and learning English. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 232, 154–160.
Swan, M. (2005). Practical English Usage. Third Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Vince, M.–Sunderland, P. (2003). Advanced Language Practice. Second Edition. Oxford: Macmillan Education.