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This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, MCIN), grant number PID2020-119102RB-I00.

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Arigita-Garcia, AmayaAuthorManoso-Pacheco, LidiaAuthorSanchez-Cabrero, RobertoCorresponding Author

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January 13, 2025
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Mapping Australian Culture and Society in the Animated Series Bluey-The Use of Audiovisual Material in Early EFL Learning

Publicated to:Societies. 14 (12): 252- - 2024-12-01 14(12), DOI: 10.3390/soc14120252

Authors: Arigita-Garcia, Amaya; Mañoso-Pacheco, Lidia; Estrada-Chichon, Jose Luis; Sanchez-Cabrero, Roberto

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Autonomous Univ Madrid, Dept Evolutionary Psychol & Educ, Madrid 28049, Spain - Author
Autonomous Univ Madrid, Dept Philol & Its Didact, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author
Univ Cadiz, Dept Teaching Language & Literature, Cadiz 11003, Spain - Author

Abstract

Bluey stands as the current pinnacle in children's television series, lauded and adorned with multiple accolades for its educational and social merits. It stands out for its portrayal of childhood social learning within familial settings, offering a realistic depiction of everyday challenges. In addition, Bluey is based on the everyday life of Australian society, clearly reflecting the country's customs, social values, and natural environments, making it an invaluable resource for enriching the cultural learning of the English language and culture from an Australian point of view, an issue that is rarely addressed in the specialist literature. Thus, this study seeks to identify the cultural and societal facets of Australia depicted in it, with the aim of assessing its pedagogical value in teaching English to non-native learners within the context of primary education. Thirty evaluators analyzed the 52 episodes of the first season of Bluey, endeavoring to identify elements across nine thematic areas. To mitigate variances among evaluators, elements were verified only if agreement was reached by at least three evaluators. In total, evaluators identified 3327 elements representing Australian culture, comprising these categories: (1) Childhood; (2) Devices; (3) Lifestyles; (4) Food; (5) Language; (6) Sports; (7) Animals; (8) Nature; and (9) Places. A total of 1223 elements received verification by the requisite number of evaluators. The resulting catalog of Australia-specific elements per episode serves as a valuable tool in selecting the most instructive episodes for English-language and Australian cultural education for non-natives. This compilation facilitates a nuanced approach to teaching English, rooted in the diverse and culturally rich Australian context, thus breaking away from strictly British and American cultural associations and embracing a broader linguistic and cultural landscape.

Keywords

Australian cultureBlueyCartoonCartoonsLearning englishQuality educationSystematic observation

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Societies due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position 90/217, thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Sociology. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q2 para la agencia Scopus (SJR) en la categoría Social Sciences (Miscellaneous).

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-08-22:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 6.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 9 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.85.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://repositorio.uam.es/handle/10486/719258
Continuing with the social impact of the work, it is important to emphasize that, due to its content, it can be assigned to the area of interest of ODS 4 - Quality Education, with a probability of 89% according to the mBERT algorithm developed by Aurora University.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (ARIGITA GARCIA, AMAYA) and Last Author (SANCHEZ CABRERO, ROBERTO).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been SANCHEZ CABRERO, ROBERTO.