PERSPECTIVE ON THE DEVELOPMENT L3 BY USING HUMOR INSTAGRAM VIDEOS

Abstract

The acquisition of languages has many ways to be approached, but in this study, the author is curious about how the acquisition of L3 (or third language acquisition) can be affected through humor that originally did not come from his or her native language/mother tongue. A previous study has been done by (Vaid & Lopez, 2017) in order to shed a light on how psycholinguistic approaches to humor and how humans comprehend humor. The journal concluded with the belief that if the researchers examine the interaction of humor content, the social and linguistic context in which humor is exchanged will lead to rich theoretical insights as well as provide a unique perspective on less-studied aspects of humor.  This research mainly had English L3 learners as primary data collection and the analysis for this research was based on the responses from the participants that had already seen the humor videos presented to them, an insight of how they could understand the joke and their takes on the videos. This research features interpretivism in order to understand English L3 learners, empathy in crucial for inquiring the subjects’ point of view, and to an extent, interpreting the interaction between the subject and the object of the research itself. This research conclude that structured perception is the perception used to deconstruct humor Instagram videos which consists of form structure, second is situational structure, and the third is the intension structure.  As for how L3 learners comprehend humor Instagram videos, there are four kinds of language comprehension that were present in understanding the presented videos, which are spoken word recognition, printed word recognition, mental lexicon, and comprehension of sentences and discourse. Researcher postulates that by looking at humor Instagram videos, L3 learners are able to improve their English because comprehending relevant videos would require a general cognitive ability to be able to make an inference of certain videos in different languages, L3 learners does this in regular basis as a part of their daily lives; therefore, increasing the likelihood of developing a better English.