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Title
Mass Media (TV and Radio) News and Language Learning
Abstract
Two important issues regarding the selection and preparation of TV news for language learning are: the content of the news and the linguistic difficulty. Content is described as being specialized or universal. Universal contexts are likely to be more comprehensible than specialized contexts. As for the linguistic difficulty, it consists of acoustic, lexical/syntactic and text-type difficulties. With regard to texttype, four types of spoken and visual elements are identified: symbolic, referential, schematic, and iconic. Audiovisual texts with greater iconic combinations are likely to be more comprehensible for language learning.
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PeerReviewed
PeerReviewed
Date
2011-05
Extent
595