Striving through enjoyment: an autoethnography of informal English learning

Sinambela, Vincent Gunawan (2025) Striving through enjoyment: an autoethnography of informal English learning. Undergraduate thesis, Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University.

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Abstract

In Indonesia, the English language is recognized as a second language and commonly taught in schools. However, I found that I learned more through activities outside of school, and wanted to know what activities helped my learning the most. Thus, I conducted this study with these questions in mind; What critical events did I encounter through my English learning progress? How did I manage to cope and overcome the obstacles during said learning? And, what lessons can I infer from the critical events? This research is an autoethnography to retell my experiences in acquiring knowledge of the English language through informal activities, tying them to Bandura’s Social Learning Theory and Krashen’s Second Language Acquisition Theory. To ensure that my research is trustworthy, it is supplemented by personal artifacts as data, which is used to construct a narrative for data analysis. The results of this analysis is then further discussed to answer the questions I presented. The findings indicate that three activities contributed the most to my English language learning; imitating music parodies, engaging in social media, and writing fanfiction. While there are difficulties to be had from unwitting imitation of the pronunciation of slurs, the negative influence of online culture, and difficulty of shaping a good engaging narrative, self-regulation proved to be a key aspect in overcoming these obstacles on top of being open-minded on the good and bad aspects of imitation of models and inferring from online culture. These solutions also play a key role in accepting advice and criticisms to improve my narrative writing and language acquisition in general.

Item Type:	Thesis (Undergraduate)
Department:	S1 - Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Contributors:	Contribution Contributors NIDN / NIDK Email Thesis advisor Widiyanto, Yohanes Nugroho NIDN0722097101 nugroho@ukwms.ac.id
Uncontrolled Keywords:	autoethnography, narrative inquiry, non-formal learning, second language acquisition theory, social learning theory
Subjects:	English Education
Divisions:	Faculty of Teacher Training and Education > English Education Study Program
Depositing User:	Vincent Gunawan Sinambela
Date Deposited:	21 Jul 2025 03:31
Last Modified:	21 Jul 2025 03:31
URI:	https://repositori.ukwms.ac.id/id/eprint/44050

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