Lucy Bella Earl Explained

Lucy Bella Earl Simkins
Birth Name:Lucy Bella Earl
Birth Date:10 June 1994
Nationality:British
Spouse:William Simkins
Website:English with Lucy
Channels:English with Lucy
Years Active:2016–present
Genre:Education
Subscribers:11.3 million
Views:520.2 million
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Stats Update:13 August 2024

Lucy Bella Simkins (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 awarded with the British Council ELTon Award for Innovation in English language teaching in 2017 and with the Entrepreneurial Award by the University of Westminster in 2018.

YouTube career

Lucy 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. Then, in Seville, Lucy qualified to teach English as a foreign language and started working in her new profession.[2]

In 2016, in her final year of university, she 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 number of followers exceeded one million[3] and the University of Westminster awarded her Entrepreneurial Award for her online activities.[1] She is an entrepreneur,[4] at times she is called an edutuber,[5] and she deals with various aspects of the English language and culture.[6]

The channel has been featured i.e. in The Times,[7] ITV News, BBC News,[8] as well as in 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

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Entrepreneurial Award | University of Westminster, London. www.westminster.ac.uk.
  2. Web site: Meet Lucy Bella Earl. 22 April 2020.
  3. Web site: Mit 500 Pfund zu 1 Million. Die Engländerin Lucy Earl lehrt die Welt Englisch. Via Youtube.. www.tagesanzeiger.ch. 9 April 2018 .
  4. Web site: Lucy Bella EARL personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK. find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.
  5. Web site: How the growing army of edutubers could be vital during a lockdown. 16 March 2020. inews.co.uk.
  6. Web site: English teacher: Common habits making you sound stupid. NZ Herald. 22 August 2023 .
  7. News: Malvern . Fariha Karim, Jack . World learns quirks of English the Lucy way . . en . 2022-03-01 . 0140-0460.
  8. News: Teaching the world English from a bedroom. BBC News .
  9. Web site: This 24-year-old has built a YouTube empire out of educational videos, but she says burnout is a real problem. Isobel Asher. Hamilton. Business Insider. 24 November 2018 .
  10. English phonological assimilation applied in "English with Lucy" channel on youTube. etheses.uin-malang.ac.id/. 23 May 2018 . undergraduate . Lathifah . Nadiah Nur .
  11. Web site: Putri . Ardini . 2023-01-01 . The Effectiveness of Learning Pronunciation Through English Content by English With Lucy on YouTube . live . 2024-08-01 . researchgate.net.
  12. Web site: Kurniawati . Diah . 2024-08-01 . AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACT USED BY YOUTUBE CHANNEL “ENGLISH WITH LUCY” . live . 2024-08-01 . eprints.iain-surakarta.ac.id.
  13. Ostafińska . Justyna . 2022-09-05 . Learning English language pronunciation with YouTube. An evaluation of two popular educational channels . the website Bachelor's Theses.
  14. Web site: Jak se učit anglicky s youtube (aktualizováno). www.jazykovamentorka.cz. September 2021 .
  15. Web site: 6 Channel YouTube untuk Belajar Bahasa Inggris British, Belajar Dengan Penutur Asli. www.aspirasiku.id. October 2021 .
  16. Web site: Do you speak English? – czyli uczymy się języków z YouTube. przasnysz.potencjaly.pl.
  17. Web site: LEARN ENGLISH FOR FREE ON YOUTUBE. www.dpuni.org.
  18. Web site: Interview: English with Lucy. italki.
  19. Web site: Lucy Bella. 50 Facts About Me Lucy Bella Earl. bot: unknown. https://web.archive.org/web/20220622230809/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1PEHqSrx_A&t=337s. 22 June 2022. 2019-04-30. 2022-06-23. YouTube.
  20. Web site: Peace and sustainable development top ELTons Innovation Awards. www.britishcouncil.org.