The provision of instruction in English as a foreign language (EFL) is constantly being extended to include ever younger learners. As one of the challenges for pre‐primary EFL instruction is the delivery of a sufficient amount of appropriate input, the main aim of this article is to investigate one potential source of such input, namely an animated television series, in terms of its linguistic features and its suitability for use in pre‐primary instruction. More specifically, the article examines a corpus of 88 episode transcripts of the Peppa Pig series. It analyses the extent to which the data contain linguistic features which can also be found in another corpus of spoken English. Following the analysis, recommendations for integrating the series into pre‐primary English instruction are presented.

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粉红猪小妹电视连续剧作为学前教育英语教学中的输入：一项基于语料库的研究

以英语作为外语（EFL）的教学内容正在不断扩展，以包括越来越年轻的学习者。由于学前EFL教学的挑战之一是要提供足够数量的适当输入，因此本文的主要目的是就其输入的语言特征来研究这种输入的一种潜在来源，即动画电视连续剧。及其在学前教育中的适用性。更具体地说，该文章研究了Peppa Pig系列的88集转录本的语料库。它分析了数据包含语言特征的程度，这些特征也可以在另一种英语口语中找到。分析之后，提出了将系列内容整合到学前英语教学中的建议。