Essential Complementaries: English as an Additional Language and the New Media Language Integrating #NewMediaDiscourse-Vivifying your #EAL
Essential Complementaries: English as an Additional Language and the New Media Language Integrating #NewMediaDiscourse-Vivifying your #EAL The New Media Language The familiarization scale of new media discourse is unlimited: naturalized. The process and the outcome of naturalization reflects the degree of familiarity with what has been consciously learnt to the extreme that the notion is thought of as natural, innate-forever existent. Readers of the new media-generated texts (audio, written and visual) are not estranged by the use of symbols, hashtags, labels and the homogeneous structure and the heavily emotional language of the news media. English as an Additional Language The term EAL stands for the use, or the study of the English Language by non-native speakers in and English-speaking environment (Nordquist, 2020). The term is preferred as English as an Additional Language acknowledges that students are already competent speakers of at least ...