1. Why TikTok?

Social media platforms are fast becoming one of the best ways to learn a language, and TikTok is no different. So, why using TikTok in ESL Teaching? TikTok is a fun resource for listening to natural speech and hearing accents. Not to mention the amount of snippets of grammar and vocabulary you can also find.

2. How to engage students?

• Assign your homework there (videos are just 15 second long and don´t have to be shared publicly);

• It´s possible to create a closed classroom group and share your videos there;

• Create your own teaching video to explain some of the language concepts (sts will be able to watch it over and over again in case they didn´t grasp it from the first time);

• Several examples of assignments you can implement, using TikTok in ESL Teaching:

Assignment 1: Have students identify promoted content in their TikTok feed

Ask students to identify sponsored content in their existing social media feeds. How advertisers target them.

Assignment 2: Create a 15 second “explainer” video on a life-hack

3. Be careful

• On TikTok, you can “duet” with another person, meaning react to another person’s TikTok (that will display as something like a split screen). And it can be used for bullying purposes. To prevent it users can turn off those features before someone takes advantage of them;

• Younger children on TikTok will sometimes try to emulate older kids and teens. They might lip-sync to songs with mature or inappropriate lyrics, dance in provocative ways, or appear scantily clad;

• TikTok has its dark corners, including adults-only hashtags, which might flag highly sexualized content, or self-harm videos.

Top five TikTok accounts to learn English

1. @letsspeakenglish   2. @enamoradalina   3. @marisolesquiveldlc     4. @how_to_british 5. @teacherluke

Text by: Anastasiia Lytvynenko

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