Teaching a Part of American Culture Through Hip-Hop and African American Videos: A Media Content Analysis and Teaching Implications

• 발행기관: 영상영어교육학회
• 저자명: Im, Jae-hyun
• 간행물 정보: 『STEM Journal』21권 2호, 95~121쪽, 전체 27쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2020.05.30

영문 초록

Despite their increasing popularity, hip-hop and African American culture have rarely been regarded as a valuable source of pedagogical resources in Korean English education. The lack of academic discussion regarding this issue has led Korean English teachers and learners to overlook hip-hop and African American culture even though they can function as a counternarrative to the biased, Anglo-centric discourse and can be a motivator for the young generation that is interested in them. In this vein, this paper argues that the inclusion of hip-hop and African American cultural texts can be meaningful for English teachers and learners in Korea, especially with the aim of teaching about a significant segment of American culture. By performing a media content analysis of readily available hip-hop and African American videos that include real African American figures, this paper identifies pedagogically valuable themes to approach American culture from African American perspectives. Six themes are included: brute force, advocation of peace, the self-made man, an appreciative attitude toward the community, African American English and identity, and life-saving intervention. This paper calls for further discussion to expand the scope of teaching and learning about hip-hop and African American culture, which has been overlooked to date in cross-cultural and ESL/EFL education.

목차

I. INTRODUCTION

II. LITERATURE REVIEW

III. METHODOLOGY

IV. RESULTS

V. CONCLUSION

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키워드

hip-hop African American American culture media content analysis