Social media have become part of our daily routines, bringing a lot of changes in our lives and suggesting new and stimulating views of the world. Since it is more and more difficult to engage new generations with traditional teaching techniques and methodologies, using mobile devices in class is today considered a pedagogical approach widely recognized by language learning scholars. Based on social semiotic studies of social media and multimodal literacies, the present research aims at exploring how university students can implement their knowledge of specialized discourses via TikTok in an EFL class. A three-month empirical study was conducted in a class of 174 undergraduate students at the University of Napoli Federico II (Italy) to verify whether the use of TikTok in class could affect students’ learning process and improve their critical multimodal literacy skills on specialized discourses such as the language of advertising and tourism.
Tiktok in the Classroom: Enhancing Critical Multimodal Literacy Skills among Undergraduate Students / Zollo, SOLE ALBA. - In: RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI LINGUISTICA APPLICATA. - ISSN 0033-9725. - 2-3(2023), pp. 275-294.
Tiktok in the Classroom: Enhancing Critical Multimodal Literacy Skills among Undergraduate Students
Sole Alba Zollo
2023
Abstract
Social media have become part of our daily routines, bringing a lot of changes in our lives and suggesting new and stimulating views of the world. Since it is more and more difficult to engage new generations with traditional teaching techniques and methodologies, using mobile devices in class is today considered a pedagogical approach widely recognized by language learning scholars. Based on social semiotic studies of social media and multimodal literacies, the present research aims at exploring how university students can implement their knowledge of specialized discourses via TikTok in an EFL class. A three-month empirical study was conducted in a class of 174 undergraduate students at the University of Napoli Federico II (Italy) to verify whether the use of TikTok in class could affect students’ learning process and improve their critical multimodal literacy skills on specialized discourses such as the language of advertising and tourism.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.