scholarly journals Facebook comme plate-forme de développement des compétences professionnelles des enseignants et des étudiants de langue: une étude de cas

2021 ◽  
pp. 335-353
Author(s):  
Maria Eleni Katsinopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Teaching Career ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
La Red ◽  
Futurs Enseignants

En la actualidad, la difusión de tecnologías y, en particular, la creación de redes sociales, exige que los profesores de idiomas aprendan nuevos datos en sus prácticas docentes. Sin embargo, al observar la red, comentamos la existencia de muchas comunidades, especialmente en Facebook, cuyo objetivo es informar a los profesores y a los estudiantes de idiomas acerca de los nuevos conocimientos. ¿Cuáles son las razones por las que un profesor de idiomas o un estudiante se convierte en miembro de estas comunidades? ¿Los sitios de redes sociales ayudan a los profesores de idiomas a mejorar sus aptitudes profesionales? El desarrollo de habilidades profesionales es una de las acciones más importantes que se necesitan para que un estudiante de idiomas obtenga una carrera docente. Nowadays, the diffusion of technologies, and in particular social networking, requires language teachers to learn new data in their teaching practices. Yet, by observing on the net, we remark the existence of many communities, especially on Facebook, which aim to inform teachers and language students about new knowledge. What are the reasons why a language teacher or student becomes a member of these communities? Do social networking sites help language teachers improving their professional skills? Developing professional skills is one of the most significant actions required for a language student to secure a teaching career. De nos jours, la propagation des technologies et plus particulièrement, du réseautage social imposent aux enseignants de langues de nouvelles données dans leurs pratiques d’enseignement. Pourtant, en naviguant sur le net, nous constatons l’existence de beaucoup de communautés, notamment sur Facebook, qui ont pour but d’informer les enseignants et les étudiants de langue sur de nouvelles connaissances. Par la suite, nous étudierons si les enseignants et les futurs enseignants continuent à rejoindre des groupes sur Facebook, même après avoir obtenu leur diplôme. Quelles sont, alors, les raisons pour lesquelles un enseignant ou un étudiant de langues devient membre de ces communautés ? Le réseautage social aide-t-il les enseignants de langue à améliorer leurs compétences professionnelles ? La formation personnelle des enseignants de langue joue un rôle important pour améliorer les connaissances et les compétences d’un professeur.

scholarly journals Advertising stereotypes and gender representation in social networking sites

Comunicar ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (41) ◽  
pp. 177-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iolanda Tortajada-Giménez ◽  
Núria Araüna-Baró ◽  
Inmaculada-José Martínez-Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Self ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
And Gender ◽  
La Red ◽  
Media Practices

This article presents the results of a quantitative and qualitative analysis of adolescent selfpresentations in Fotolog. The images which these adolescents create and share through the Net focus on the construction of the Self. Here gender and sexuality become the main structuring factors of representation. Results point to the fact adolescents selfpresentations mirror some of the categories defined by Goffman in his study of gender hyperritualization in advertising. Moreover, other gender expressions are found in the sample, such as the lesbian pose or the erotization of bodies which Gill also detects in advertising. Despite the fact that the images that adolescents upload in Social Networking Sites reproduce gender stereotypes and patriarchal patterns based in advertising, it must be said that they also elaborate a relatively varied repertoire of pictures and are able to conceive original creations. These creative selfrepresentations are the outcome of a process of negotiation of gender and sexual identity which occurs in these settings, as well as in other adolescent media practices. To avoid a thoughtless reproduction of gender stereotypes and contribute to a critical negotiation of these representations, media education is needed. This media education should take into account the way in which adolescent practices are shaped by other media consumption. Este artículo presenta los resultados del análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo de las autopresentaciones que los y las adolescentes elaboran para Fotolog. Las imágenes que dichos adolescentes crean y comparten a través de la red están centradas en el sí mismo, y el género y la sexualidad constituyen el eje principal de la representación. Los resultados obtenidos apuntan a que algunas de las categorías que estableció Goffman en su estudio sobre la hiperritualización de la feminidad en la publicidad están presentes en las autopresentaciones analizadas. Además, aparecen otras expresiones de género como la pose lésbica o la erotización de los cuerpos que ya han sido detectadas también en los análisis de la publicidad desarrollados por autoras como Gill. Si bien estas imágenes reproducen estereotipos de género y patrones patriarcales, hay que destacar la presencia de un repertorio variado y algunas creaciones originales, resultado de la negociación identitaria que, respecto al género y a la sexualidad, tiene lugar en estos espacios y otras prácticas mediáticas adolescentes. Para evitar una reproducción irreflexiva de patrones de género estereotipados y contribuir a una negociación crítica de estas representaciones sería importante que la educación mediática tuviera en cuenta la manera en que las prácticas adolescentes en las redes sociales se están nutriendo de otros consumos mediáticos y cómo esto afecta a lo que los y las adolescentes expresan en las redes.

Using Instagram as a Preparation Tool for Study Abroad

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-37
Author(s):  
Simon Park
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
The United States ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
English Classes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Members

This paper describes the usage of Instagram (the social networking platform) in sophomore English classes at a private Japanese university. Instagram was used to help students prepare for their study abroad semester. Students created private Instagram accounts and used this platform for group exercises with a mixed group of students and staff at potential study abroad sites in the United States of America. The participants posted images and video of their daily lives and routines at their schools, and created posts based on tasks set by the instructor. Group members were then encouraged to ask each other questions and communicate through Instagram. The study found that Instagram usage has the potential to help students prepare linguistically and culturally for study abroad semesters. The paper recommends follow-up studies that use Instagram and other social networking sites to help students prepare culturally and linguistically for study abroad semesters. This has implications for language teachers who are teaching prospective study abroad students or are interested in incorporating technology into their classes, as well as coordinators of study abroad programs interested in modernizing their study abroad orientation programs. この論文では、日本の私立大学の 2 年生の英語クラスでの Instagram（SNS）の使 用法について説明します。 Instagram は、学生が留学の準備をするのを助けるため に使用されました。学生はプライベート Instagram アカウントを作成し、このプラ ットフォームを使用して、米国の潜在的な留学サイトで学生とスタッフの混合グル ープとのグループ演習を行いました。参加者は、学校での日常生活の画像や動画を 投稿し、講師が設定したタスクに基づいて投稿を作成しました。その後、グループ のメンバーはお互いに質問し、Instagram を介してコミュニケーションすることが 奨励されました。調査では、Instagram の使用により、学生が留学学期に向けて言 語的および文化的に準備するのに役立つ可能性があることがわかりました。この論 文では、Instagram やその他の SNS を使用して、学生が留学に向けて文化的および 言語的に準備するのに役立つ追跡調査を推奨しています。これは、将来の留学学生 を教えている、またはクラスにテクノロジーを組み込むことに関心のある語学教 師、および留学オリエンテーションプログラムの近代化に関心のある留学プログラ ムのコーディネーターに影響を及ぼします。

Editorial: Technological addictions: The rise of social networks / Adicciones tecnológicas: El auge de las redes sociales

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
José A. García del Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Behavioral Addictions ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Substance Addiction ◽  
Extra Effort ◽  
The Social ◽  
Comprehensive Manner ◽  
Technological Addictions

Las llamadas adiciones conductuales, entre ellas Internet, siguen encontrándose en un limbo científico por las dificultades que entraña discriminar adecuadamente entre conductas, en principio normales, y patologías que podríamos considerar adictivas. La literatura científica ha sabido conceptualizar las adicciones a sustancias de una forma exhaustiva y ahora apuesta por delimitar las adicciones conductuales y sus consecuentes comportamientos de abuso en función de parámetros que están relacionados con la frecuencia de uso, el dinero invertido, la necesidad o la compulsión, así como las interferencias que puede provocar en la vida cotidiana de una persona consiguiendo que deje de cumplir sus obligaciones. Con la llegada de los Servicios de Redes Sociales (SRS) y su amplia repercusión, nos encontramos con un nuevo frente susceptible de adicción. Estos servicios, además de su atractivo y funcionalidad, cuentan con la facilidad de conexión en cualquier momento y desde cualquier lugar, lo que los convierte en potentes reforzadores inmediatos, el mejor caldo de cultivo para una adicción. Somos plenamente conscientes de que no es posible adelantarse a las tecnologías y, mucho menos, a sus posibles consecuencias, pero sería necesario profundizar más en el estado actual de las adicciones tecnológicas, en el sentido de cómo predecir su aparición entre los más jóvenes y cómo combatir terapéuticamente de una forma eficaz sus consecuentes. AbstractBehavioral addictions including Internet addiction still remaining in a scientific limbo because of the difficulties related to a properly differentiation between normal and pathological behaviors.  Literature has conceptualized substance addiction in a comprehensive manner and now stands for define the behavioral addictions and their consequential abuse behaviors as a function of parameters related to use frequency, money invested, need or compulsion, as well as the interferences in people’s daily lives that may lead them to default on their obligations. As a consequence of the advent of the Social Networking Sites (SNS) and their wide impact among population we may find a new addiction context. These services in addition to their appealing and functionality have an easy connection everywhere at any time, which makes them powerful and immediately enhancers, becoming a breeding ground for an addiction. We are fully aware that is not possible to keep ahead to the technologies and neither their consequences but extra effort is still needed to understand their mechanisms, how can we predict the appearance among young people and how can we fight therapeutically against their consequences.

Teachers' Use of Social Networking Sites for Continuing Professional Development

2014 ◽  
pp. 336-359
Author(s):  
Daniel Xerri
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Pedagogical Skills ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Personal Learning Network

On the basis of the results of a study conducted amongst secondary school teachers of English in Malta, this chapter explores the use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) for professional development purposes. In the digital era, SNS provide teachers with the opportunity of creating a Personal Learning Network (PLN), which is an increasingly significant way of acquiring new knowledge and enhancing pedagogical skills while also having the capacity of making teachers feel they belong to a Community of Practice (CoP). This chapter shows how despite their regular use of SNS for personal reasons, teachers do not always exploit these sites to achieve professional development. It is argued that training is a necessary means of not only enabling teachers to learn how to use such tools for such a purpose but also of redefining the way they think about the process of acquiring and sharing knowledge and skills in the 21st century.

Teachers' Use of Social Networking Sites for Continuing Professional Development

2015 ◽  
pp. 1694-1717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Xerri
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Pedagogical Skills ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Personal Learning Network

On the basis of the results of a study conducted amongst secondary school teachers of English in Malta, this chapter explores the use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) for professional development purposes. In the digital era, SNS provide teachers with the opportunity of creating a Personal Learning Network (PLN), which is an increasingly significant way of acquiring new knowledge and enhancing pedagogical skills while also having the capacity of making teachers feel they belong to a Community of Practice (CoP). This chapter shows how despite their regular use of SNS for personal reasons, teachers do not always exploit these sites to achieve professional development. It is argued that training is a necessary means of not only enabling teachers to learn how to use such tools for such a purpose but also of redefining the way they think about the process of acquiring and sharing knowledge and skills in the 21st century.

Teachers' Use of Social Networking Sites for Continuing Professional Development

2016 ◽  
pp. 1563-1587
Author(s):  
Daniel Xerri
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Pedagogical Skills ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Personal Learning Network

On the basis of the results of a study conducted amongst secondary school teachers of English in Malta, this chapter explores the use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) for professional development purposes. In the digital era, SNS provide teachers with the opportunity of creating a Personal Learning Network (PLN), which is an increasingly significant way of acquiring new knowledge and enhancing pedagogical skills while also having the capacity of making teachers feel they belong to a Community of Practice (CoP). This chapter shows how despite their regular use of SNS for personal reasons, teachers do not always exploit these sites to achieve professional development. It is argued that training is a necessary means of not only enabling teachers to learn how to use such tools for such a purpose but also of redefining the way they think about the process of acquiring and sharing knowledge and skills in the 21st century.

Teachers' Use of Social Networking Sites for Continuing Professional Development

2016 ◽  
pp. 635-659
Author(s):  
Daniel Xerri
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Pedagogical Skills ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Personal Learning Network

On the basis of the results of a study conducted amongst secondary school teachers of English in Malta, this chapter explores the use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) for professional development purposes. In the digital era, SNS provide teachers with the opportunity of creating a Personal Learning Network (PLN), which is an increasingly significant way of acquiring new knowledge and enhancing pedagogical skills while also having the capacity of making teachers feel they belong to a Community of Practice (CoP). This chapter shows how despite their regular use of SNS for personal reasons, teachers do not always exploit these sites to achieve professional development. It is argued that training is a necessary means of not only enabling teachers to learn how to use such tools for such a purpose but also of redefining the way they think about the process of acquiring and sharing knowledge and skills in the 21st century.

Teachers’ Use of Social Networking Sites for Continuing Professional Development

2014 ◽  
pp. 441-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Xerri
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Pedagogical Skills ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Personal Learning Network

On the basis of the results of a study conducted amongst secondary school teachers of English in Malta, this chapter explores the use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) for professional development purposes. In the digital era, SNS provide teachers with the opportunity of creating a Personal Learning Network (PLN), which is an increasingly significant way of acquiring new knowledge and enhancing pedagogical skills while also having the capacity of making teachers feel they belong to a Community of Practice (CoP). This chapter shows how despite their regular use of SNS for personal reasons, teachers do not always exploit these sites to achieve professional development. It is argued that training is a necessary means of not only enabling teachers to learn how to use such tools for such a purpose but also of redefining the way they think about the process of acquiring and sharing knowledge and skills in the 21st century.

scholarly journals Emoticons in transactional and interactional exchanges: social networking chitchat versus working negotiation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Maíz-Arévalo
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated

Abstract: emoticons are ordinarily linked to more colloquial computer-mediated exchanges such as informal emails, chats, comments on social networking sites, etc. In these genres, the interactional function of language is also predominant even if there can also be transactional elements. The question rises whether more transactional and formal exchanges make a similar use of emoticons. This paper aims to compare the use of emoticons in two contrastive datasets of computer-mediated communication where either the interactional or transactional function predominates to find out whether emoticons are used as much in transactional as in interactional encounters and whether they perform the same functions.Resumen: en general, los emoticonos se asocian a contextos de carácter informal (mails informales, chats, redes sociales, etc.). En estos géneros, predomina la función interactiva del lenguaje incluso cuando hay cierta transacción. Esto nos lleva a plantearnos si los emoticonos tienen las misma frecuencia de uso y sirven para desempeñar las mismas funciones en aquellos intercambios mediados por ordenador de carácter más formal. El objetivo de este estudio es comparar el uso de los emoticonos en dos bases de datos: una de carácter interactivo frente a otra transaccional y ver si la frecuencia de uso y las funciones desempeñadas son equiparables.

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