Social Media and Language Learning: Using TikTo. Lee, Lee,**

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Social Media and Language LearningUsing TikTok and Instagram\nAuthor(s): Yeong-Ju Lee\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032895888, 978-1032895888\nSynopsis\nThis book explores creative uses of social media for informal language learning. It focuses on the underexplored area of how informal language learning adapts to technological innovations in two multimodal media-sharing platforms: TikTok and Instagram.\n\nDrawing on ecological perspectives of language learning and spatial understandings of digital technology and learning, the research reported in this book unpacks how social media technologies are used for language learning. It presents insights from a dual-level qualitative methodological design: a comparative study of public online data of social media posts collected from TikTok and Instagram, and a multiple case study based on ethnographic narrative data gathered from participants journal entries, stimulat.