Secondary-school Students’ Perspectives of Utilizing Tik Tok for English learning in and beyond the EFL classroom
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DOI: 10.23977/ETSS2020030
Corresponding Author
Huining Yang
ABSTRACT
The popularization of mobile devices and the Web 2.0 technology provide incredible chances for diverse social media applications to play significant roles in today’s society. As one of the most popular social media applications in China, Tik Tok also takes a place in the international field, comparable to Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Wechat and so on. Even though massive relevant studies have suggested that utilizing social media for language teaching can have positive effects on learning performance, limited literature shed lights on the utilization of Tik Tok for educational purposes. Therefore, this study aims to fill the gaps, exploring secondary-school students’ perspectives of utilizing Tik Tok for English learning in and beyond the EFL classroom. 187 secondary-school students from China were voluntary to take part in the quantitative survey research, employing an online questionnaire as the research instrument. The findings revealed that secondary-school students held positive attitudes towards introducing Tik Tok as video aids into EFL classroom teaching meanwhile using it as an English learning strategy out of class. Moreover, students expressed strong desire for being guided and supported by their teachers to effectively utilize Tik Tok for English learning
KEYWORDS
Social media application, Tik Tok, EFL, Secondary School