Learning Languages on Social Media
From Language on the Move by New Books Network
May 26, 2026 · 38 min
About this episode
This episode features a discussion on the role of social media in informal language learning with Dr. Yeong Ju Lee.
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Yeong Ju Lee about her new book Social Media and Language Learning: Using TikTok and Instagram (Routledge, 2025). Lee, Y. J. (2025). Social Media and Language Learning: Using TikTok and Instagram. Taylor & Francis. This 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. Drawing 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, stimulated recall interviews, and social media posts. This book reveals the dynamic landscape of digital language learning that is being…
People in this episode
Host: Brynn Quick
Guest: Dr. Yeong Ju Lee
Topics covered
- language learning
- social media
- TikTok
- pedagogy
- technology
Keywords
- language learning
- social media
- TikTok
- pedagogical strategies
- digital technology
- multimodal content
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Books & works: Social Media and Language Learning: Using TikTok and Instagram
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