Abstract
As an open social recourse and special language text, linguistic landscape, visibility and salience of languages on public and commercial signs in a given territory or region Landry and Bourhis (1997), and presented on various signs or billboards publicly, can be used as a useful recourse in language learning. Shenzhen, the first Chinese special economic zone, has developed into a fast-growing innovative city. Compared to other cities, Shenzhen has more frequent communications with worldwide visitors. Therefore, its education should be more international and advanced, especially English learning, since English, the most widely used language, is being used in linguistic landscapes increasingly. However, nowadays tedious English learning content and learning methods are unable to meet training requirements of students’ English level in society. Therefore, considering the significance of linguistic landscape in humanities construction and English learning, the government and schools give great importance to the construction of campus linguistic landscape. Through reference to representative research literatures and comparative analysis, this study intends to explore the importance of linguistic landscape in English learning by analyzing differences in campus linguistic landscape between middle schools and universities within Shenzhen from the form and content by introducing the way in which linguistic landscape is presented. And different purposes of its application are introduced in order to understand the application and design of linguistic landscape in different campuses more comprehensively. The research also explores the influence of campus linguistic landscape on students’ English learning, from the perspective of informal environmental penetration, learning material, stirring interest, broadening vocabulary and knowledge and its close relationship with life. This paper adopts the Constructivist learning theory of Piaget (1970). Students establish knowledge about the external world in the process of interaction with the surrounding environment to develop their cognitive structure. This paper concludes that the integration of linguistic landscape can benefit from its educational function to conduct a practice-oriented, teacher-led and student-centered pattern of English learning and improve students’ English learning ability.
Highlights
Being visibility and salience of languages on public and commercial signs in a given territory or region (Landry and Bourhis, 1997), Linguistic landscape, has gradually become the research object of scholars in various subjects such as sociolinguistics, sociology and social psychology
This paper has discussed the educational value of linguistic landscape in English learning
The influence of linguistic landscape on English learning needs to be further investigated in more other areas
Summary
Being visibility and salience of languages on public and commercial signs in a given territory or region (Landry and Bourhis, 1997), Linguistic landscape , has gradually become the research object of scholars in various subjects such as sociolinguistics, sociology and social psychology. Schools of all levels have given increasing importance to the construction of campus linguistic landscape to infiltrate teachers and students with humanistic quality education and take full advantage of the educational function of linguistic landscape in different kinds of schools This has been done in various ways such as campus culture construction and English teaching materials. Comparing the linguistic landscape in middle schools and at universities will shed light on exploiting the educational feature of linguistic landscape and improving the shortcoming of current English learning to enhance different students' English learning effectively. It is necessary for us to discuss the influence of linguistic landscape on English learning in middle schools and at universities for creating suitable education for student’s cognitive development and effective learning.
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