Short abstract
>This presentation focuses on informal language learning on YouTube™ videos that elicits substantial response from their audience in the form of written comments (vlogs). Our analysis (conducted in collaboration with Dr. C. Combe) evaluates the potential and the limits of informal language learning in a vlogging context. Validation of non-formal and informal programs and activities that promote the acquisition of knowledge and skills is at the centre of UNESCO’s Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). The European Commission in the Education Development Guidelines for 2014 – 2020 for youth skills for the 21st century stipulates that a measure for the recognition of non-formal and informal learning must be introduced no later than 2018 as the acquired knowledge can increase the competitiveness of young people in the labor market.
Keywords: digital communication, digital skills, vlogs, social media, YouTube™.
Brief Biography
Dr. Tatiana Codreanu holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University Lumière-Lyon 2. Her doctoral research focused on user experience and user behavior in digital contexts (2014). She conducted research on digital discourse and interaction analysis, motivation, online learning and teaching and MOOCs. She is a Lecturer in French at the Imperial College and her current research project investigates multimodal communication and the dynamic of group effects: the relationship between mimetic desire and cooperation.
Recent publications:
Vlogs, Video Publishing And Informal Language Learning of Informal Language Learning, Wiley edited by Mark Dressman & Randall Sadler (in collaboration with Dr. C. Combe)- in press
Exploring the dynamics of intercultural communication through a language learner’s vlog: Glocal tensions”,Routledge, 2018 (in collaboration with Dr. C. Combe)