Integrating social media into the foreign language classroom can make the teaching and learning m... more Integrating social media into the foreign language classroom can make the teaching and learning more authentic and may help students to use their digital literacy in a reflective manner. Drawing on a framework of multiliteracies (New London Group, 1996), the study reported in this article explored teh integrateion of social media in an assignment in a German intermediate lanugage classrii in a teriary setting, where Instagram was usedas aplatform to support studetns' oral presentations. Ten students took part in this pilot study, which used mixrd data collection methods; these included interviews with students, questionnaires answered by studetns as well as ethnofraphic obsevrations by the instructor. Results showed that the students enjoyed the Instagram task, prefered it to a PowerPoint presentation, and perceived the Instagram based assignment as beneficial for their spoken language learning and learning about German culture.
A Facebook group was used in a German intermediate language class (n=21) to support informal writ... more A Facebook group was used in a German intermediate language class (n=21) to support informal writing and community building. Data for this study was collected over a period of six month using ethnographic methods. The data was analysed using thematic analysis; activity theory was applied to support the analysis as an additional lens.
Integrating social media into the foreign language classroom can make the teaching and learning m... more Integrating social media into the foreign language classroom can make the teaching and learning more authentic and may help students to use their digital literacy in a reflective manner. Drawing on a framework of multiliteracies (New London Group, 1996), the study reported in this article explored teh integrateion of social media in an assignment in a German intermediate lanugage classrii in a teriary setting, where Instagram was usedas aplatform to support studetns' oral presentations. Ten students took part in this pilot study, which used mixrd data collection methods; these included interviews with students, questionnaires answered by studetns as well as ethnofraphic obsevrations by the instructor. Results showed that the students enjoyed the Instagram task, prefered it to a PowerPoint presentation, and perceived the Instagram based assignment as beneficial for their spoken language learning and learning about German culture.
A Facebook group was used in a German intermediate language class (n=21) to support informal writ... more A Facebook group was used in a German intermediate language class (n=21) to support informal writing and community building. Data for this study was collected over a period of six month using ethnographic methods. The data was analysed using thematic analysis; activity theory was applied to support the analysis as an additional lens.
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