Linguistic Landscape Projects as English Teaching and Learning Resources: A Review

Abstract

<p>As the interest for linguistic landscape research has grown a lot in the past few decades, and so is the enthusiasm for taking advantage of linguistic landscape in language and subject-content classrooms. This paper aims at providing informative and valuable summary of works that have promoted the linguistic landscape as one of the English teaching and learning resources. Hence, it includes only papers that have specifically focused on advocating the benefits of linguistic landscape for English teaching and learning within the last ten years. The review is divided into several sections that explain the targeted participants, goal, method, advantages and several critical notes concerning the implementation of linguistic landscape projects. Suggestions for future review and studies on linguistic landscape are also provided.</p>

Exploring Linguistic Landscape inside a Faculty of Cultural Studies in Malang

“…However, the presence of linguistic landscape in the context of the Indonesian educational field has been contradictory. The presence of signage in the educational field arguably can help students with language or cultural awareness, but not all the texts are relevant to language learning [7], [1], [3], [8], and [5]. Several articles stated that the multimodality of a linguistic landscape helps communicative skills such as pragmatics, vocabulary, and grammar.…”

“…[7] states that the languages used in the linguistic landscape are potential authentic learning materials in second language acquisition (SLA) and for language awareness. In line with [7], one research mentions that the linguistic landscape was valuable to be an intensive reading assignment for students [5]. Another study also discovered that the linguistic landscape serves as a form of surveillance that encourages students to use proper grammar [4].…”