Early Incidental Second Language Acquisition through Cartoons
This fascinating open access study explains and describes the process by which young children can acquire a second language incidentally, via joyful and regular exposure to animated cartoons. This multi-year activity can replicate some aspects of the mother-tongue acquisition process, especially whe...
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2026
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| author | Nisio, Rosalia Di |
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| description | This fascinating open access study explains and describes the process by which young children can acquire a second language incidentally, via joyful and regular exposure to animated cartoons. This multi-year activity can replicate some aspects of the mother-tongue acquisition process, especially when supported by a co-viewing caregiver. Rosalia Di Nisio emphasises two important elements in the acquisition process: the mediation of co-viewing adults as a motivating factor, and the multimodal nature of cartoons as a facilitator of extensive comprehension through sounds and images. She gives evidence to this multimodality by first focusing on the ‘dual coding’ interaction between cartoons’ verbal and non-verbal dimensions, then broadening her analysis to a more complex meaning-making discourse. Combining cognitive, relational and language perspectives, Di Nisio also demonstrates the near-native language acquisition phases: singing and acting out, which mark the baby’s involvement accompanied by a caregiver; the silent, but fertile phase, during which listening skills reach surprising levels; speech development, which is prompted by opportunities to interact with a native speaker. Underpinned by foundational theory from cognitive psychology, multimodality and applied linguistics, this is an essential study of a fertile but overlooked mode of language acquisition. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1779052026-06-22T05:34:09Z Early Incidental Second Language Acquisition through Cartoons Nisio, Rosalia Di Early bilingualism Incidental learning Animated cartoons Co-viewing Multimodality Formulaic-pragmatic Second screen Touchscreen Near-native Listening Speaking Verbal Linguistic Para-social Parasocial Microculture Typology Mediation Dual-coding Bilingual Bilingualism Morphology Cognitive Neurological Prosody Pragmatics Collocation Toddler Parantese Phatic Idiom Colloquial Halliday Cohesion thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning::CJA Language teaching theory and methods thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning::CJP Language learning for specific purposes::CJPG Language learning for academic, technical and scientific purposes thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNT Teaching skills and techniques This fascinating open access study explains and describes the process by which young children can acquire a second language incidentally, via joyful and regular exposure to animated cartoons. This multi-year activity can replicate some aspects of the mother-tongue acquisition process, especially when supported by a co-viewing caregiver. Rosalia Di Nisio emphasises two important elements in the acquisition process: the mediation of co-viewing adults as a motivating factor, and the multimodal nature of cartoons as a facilitator of extensive comprehension through sounds and images. She gives evidence to this multimodality by first focusing on the ‘dual coding’ interaction between cartoons’ verbal and non-verbal dimensions, then broadening her analysis to a more complex meaning-making discourse. Combining cognitive, relational and language perspectives, Di Nisio also demonstrates the near-native language acquisition phases: singing and acting out, which mark the baby’s involvement accompanied by a caregiver; the silent, but fertile phase, during which listening skills reach surprising levels; speech development, which is prompted by opportunities to interact with a native speaker. Underpinned by foundational theory from cognitive psychology, multimodality and applied linguistics, this is an essential study of a fertile but overlooked mode of language acquisition. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com 2026-06-22T05:34:08Z 2026-06-22T05:34:08Z 2026-06-21T09:18:38Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260621T103019_9781350513808_100 https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350513822?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114226 9781350513808 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177905 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/114226/1/9781350513808.pdf Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bloomsbury Academic b7fec79e-c133-4cb3-9544-88060a4d4e06 9781350513808 Bloomsbury Academic 286 London open access |
| spellingShingle | Early bilingualism Incidental learning Animated cartoons Co-viewing Multimodality Formulaic-pragmatic Second screen Touchscreen Near-native Listening Speaking Verbal Linguistic Para-social Parasocial Microculture Typology Mediation Dual-coding Bilingual Bilingualism Morphology Cognitive Neurological Prosody Pragmatics Collocation Toddler Parantese Phatic Idiom Colloquial Halliday Cohesion thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning::CJA Language teaching theory and methods thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning::CJP Language learning for specific purposes::CJPG Language learning for academic, technical and scientific purposes thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNT Teaching skills and techniques Nisio, Rosalia Di Early Incidental Second Language Acquisition through Cartoons |
| title | Early Incidental Second Language Acquisition through Cartoons |
| title_full | Early Incidental Second Language Acquisition through Cartoons |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Early Incidental Second Language Acquisition through Cartoons |
| title_short | Early Incidental Second Language Acquisition through Cartoons |
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| topic | Early bilingualism Incidental learning Animated cartoons Co-viewing Multimodality Formulaic-pragmatic Second screen Touchscreen Near-native Listening Speaking Verbal Linguistic Para-social Parasocial Microculture Typology Mediation Dual-coding Bilingual Bilingualism Morphology Cognitive Neurological Prosody Pragmatics Collocation Toddler Parantese Phatic Idiom Colloquial Halliday Cohesion thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning::CJA Language teaching theory and methods thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning::CJP Language learning for specific purposes::CJPG Language learning for academic, technical and scientific purposes thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNT Teaching skills and techniques |
| topic_facet | Early bilingualism Incidental learning Animated cartoons Co-viewing Multimodality Formulaic-pragmatic Second screen Touchscreen Near-native Listening Speaking Verbal Linguistic Para-social Parasocial Microculture Typology Mediation Dual-coding Bilingual Bilingualism Morphology Cognitive Neurological Prosody Pragmatics Collocation Toddler Parantese Phatic Idiom Colloquial Halliday Cohesion thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning::CJA Language teaching theory and methods thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning::CJP Language learning for specific purposes::CJPG Language learning for academic, technical and scientific purposes thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNT Teaching skills and techniques |
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