Lucy Bella Simkins (née Earl) is a British teacher of English as a foreign language and the creator of the educational channel 'English with Lucy' on YouTube. She was given the British Council ELTon Award for Innovation in English language teaching in 2017 and the Entrepreneurial Award by the University of Westminster in 2018.
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| Born | Lucy Bella Earl 10 June 1994 | |||||||||
| Nationality | British | |||||||||
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| Spouse | William Simkins | |||||||||
| Website | English with Lucy | |||||||||
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| Channels | English with Lucy | |||||||||
| Years active | 2016–present | |||||||||
| Genre | Education | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 11.3 million | |||||||||
| Total views | 520.2 million | |||||||||
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Last updated: 13 August 2024 | ||||||||||
YouTube career
editLucy Bella Earl studied at the University of Westminster, from which she graduated in 2016 with a BA in Marketing Communications.[1] As part of the Erasmus programme, she studied in Madrid, Spain. In Seville, she qualified to teach English as a foreign language and started working in her new profession.[2]
In 2016, in her final year of university, Earl launched her educational YouTube channel ‘English with Lucy’. Within its first year of operation, the channel was followed by 100,000 viewers and she decided to focus on turning it into a full-time job and business.[1]
In 2018, the channel's followers exceeded one million,[3] and the University of Westminster gave her the Entrepreneurial Award for her online activities.[1] Earl is an entrepreneur,[4] and has been called an edutuber.[5] She deals with various aspects of the English language and culture.[6]
The channel has been featured by The Times,[7] ITV News,[1] BBC News,[8] Business Insider,[9] and Tages-Anzeiger Panorama.[3]
The content of the channel has been subjected to scholarly analysis, i.e. in Indonesia: at the Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University Malang (2018),[10] at the Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta (2022)[11] in Jakarta, at the Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Mas Said Surakarta (2023)[12] in Surakarta, and at the Jagiellonian University in Poland (2022)[13] and recommended to learners of English.[14][15][16][17]
Apart from her mother tongue, Lucy Bella Earl is fluent in Spanish and has a good command of Italian.[18][19]
Awards
edit- 2017, the British Council ELTons Awards for Innovation in English language teaching, The Award for Local Innovation in partnership with Cambridge English Language Assessment - Learner or teacher solutions developed at a local, national or regional level to meet a specific local need and within a specific local context[20]
- 2018, Westminster Alumni Awards, Entrepreneurial Award, the University of Westminster, London, UK
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Entrepreneurial Award | University of Westminster, London". www.westminster.ac.uk.
- ^ "Meet Lucy Bella Earl". 22 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Mit 500 Pfund zu 1 Million. Die Engländerin Lucy Earl lehrt die Welt Englisch. Via Youtube". www.tagesanzeiger.ch. 9 April 2018.
- ^ "Lucy Bella EARL personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.
- ^ "How the growing army of edutubers could be vital during a lockdown". inews.co.uk. 16 March 2020.
- ^ "English teacher: Common habits making you sound stupid". NZ Herald. 22 August 2023.
- ^ Malvern, Fariha Karim, Jack. "World learns quirks of English the Lucy way". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Teaching the world English from a bedroom". BBC News.
- ^ Hamilton, Isobel Asher (24 November 2018). "This 24-year-old has built a YouTube empire out of educational videos, but she says burnout is a real problem". Business Insider.
- ^ Lathifah, Nadiah Nur (23 May 2018). English phonological assimilation applied in "English with Lucy" channel on youTube. etheses.uin-malang.ac.id/ (undergraduate).
- ^ Putri, Ardini (1 January 2023). "The Effectiveness of Learning Pronunciation Through English Content by English With Lucy on YouTube". researchgate.net. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ Kurniawati, Diah (1 August 2024). "AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACT USED BY YOUTUBE CHANNEL "ENGLISH WITH LUCY"" (PDF). eprints.iain-surakarta.ac.id. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ Ostafińska, Justyna (5 September 2022). "Learning English language pronunciation with YouTube. An evaluation of two popular educational channels". The Website Bachelor's Theses.
- ^ "Jak se učit anglicky s youtube (aktualizováno)". www.jazykovamentorka.cz. September 2021.
- ^ "6 Channel YouTube untuk Belajar Bahasa Inggris British, Belajar Dengan Penutur Asli". www.aspirasiku.id. October 2021.
- ^ "Do you speak English? – czyli uczymy się języków z YouTube". przasnysz.potencjaly.pl.
- ^ "LEARN ENGLISH FOR FREE ON YOUTUBE". www.dpuni.org.
- ^ "Interview: English with Lucy". italki.
- ^ Lucy Bella (30 April 2019). "50 Facts About Me | Lucy Bella Earl". YouTube. Archived from the original on 22 June 2022. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Peace and sustainable development top ELTons Innovation Awards". www.britishcouncil.org.