Twitter as an online educational community in the Spanish literature classroom

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ID8936061
AuthorsHeather Jerónimo (0009-0006-3726-1310, Department of Languages & Literatures University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls Iowa USA, corresponding author), Allysha Martin (Department of Spanish and Humanities Milligan University Elizabethton Tennessee USA)
Year2021
Volume54
Issue2
Pages505-524
Publication date2021-04-09
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueForeign Language Annals (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0015-718X • E-ISSN: 1944-9720
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/flan.12522
OpenAlexW3152887105
LanguageEN
References cited18

Research on social media in the foreign language classroom has grown significantly in the last 10 years. However, there continues to be a gap in how social media, Twitter in particular, can be used as a tool to build community within a Spanish as a second‐language literature classroom. The current action research project seeks to address this gap. Set in two rural higher‐education institutions in Iowa and Tennessee, the authors used Twitter as a platform to build an online educational community of language learners. At the conclusion of the semester's guided projects using Twitter, survey responses were gathered from participants in both classes. Twitter was found to not only encourage meaningful communication in the target language, but also to foster community among language learners outside of the classroom, thereby integrating the school and global communities standard of ACTFL's fifth “C,” one of the most elusive of the World‐Readiness Standards for Learning Languages

Action (physics · Foreign language · Mathematics education · Online community · Pedagogy · Set (abstract data type · Social media · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Storytelling and Education · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods · Psychology

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