Abstract
This work aims at exploring the YouTube platform as a social network and useful space for English language learning in the Brazilian context. We believe that YouTube is a potential platform to enhance autonomy, but we are aware that there is a specific kind of student who could benefit from using this tool. For the theoretical basis of this research, we are based on Recuero (2009) to discuss the meaning of social network. We will explore some YouTubers who use the platform to teach the English language.
Highlights
YouTube is an online platform that was originally launched in June 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim
This work aims at exploring the YouTube platform as a social network and useful space for English language learning in the Brazilian context
We believe that YouTube is a potential platform to enhance autonomy, but we are aware that there is a specific kind of student who could benefit from using this tool
Summary
YouTube is an online platform that was originally launched in June 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. In addition to enabling the sharing of audiovisual content, YouTube allows its users, through registration, to evaluate the videos, giving them a “thumbs up” or a “thumbs down”, and adding them to a list of favorite videos. The content found on this platform varies a lot in its content and can be presented in the form of music videos, movie trailers, video clips, parts of TV programs, live streams (streaming) and, a great success today, vlogs and daily vlogs. This platform presents itself as an online environment pursued by those who wish, or do not care, for a more “public” life. This platform presents itself as an online environment pursued by those who wish, or do not care, for a more “public” life. Prensky (2010, p. 2) states that “people mourning with the need to express and share their feelings and get comfort in people‟s responses [...]”, for this reason, a large number of people www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/fce
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