Cultural Awareness in Pre-Service Early Childhood Teacher Training: A Catalogue of British Cultural Elements in Peppa Pig
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2023Department
Didáctica de la Lengua y la LiteraturaSource
Education Sciences - 2023, Vol. 13, n. 10, pp. 1-15Abstract
Foreign language teaching should integrate the culture embodied in the target language.
However, raising cultural awareness does not systematically produce the intended effects when
considered an integral component in the teaching context. This quantitative research study focuses
on creating a catalogue featuring elements representative of British culture in the animated television
series Peppa Pig as part of pre-service early childhood education teacher training in English as a
Foreign Language (EFL). This prompts the examination of the potential of Peppa Pig to not exclusively
enhance EFL proficiency but to foster a comprehensive understanding of British culture for non-native
speakers. Eleven pre-service teachers at the University of Cádiz, Spain, analysed the 52 episodes
of Peppa Pig’s season 1 and classified all elements into 13 categories, according to the Qualitative
Text Analysis approach. To minimise differences between evaluators, each element of each episode
was only checked if at least three evaluators agreed; therefore, 1050 elements were identified, with
501 elements verified in 48 of the 52 episodes. The resulting catalogue contributes to selecting the
most significant Peppa Pig’s season 1 episodes concerning British culture elements. The major
limitation of the investigation may be the fatigue experienced by the evaluators.