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ERIC Number: EJ1480883
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Sep
Pages: 26
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0039-8322
EISSN: EISSN-1545-7249
Available Date: 2024-09-10
Competing for Views and Students: The Implications of Platformization for Online Language Teaching
Jinyan Wang1; Nate Ming Curran1
TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, v59 n3 p1262-1287 2025
Language teachers increasingly make use of digital platforms to find students, upload teaching material, give lessons, and promote themselves. This article examines the accounts of two popular English teachers from China on the social media platform Douyin and explores similarities and differences in the two teachers' self-branding strategies. We suggest that the two teachers are emblematic of "platform language teacherpreneurs": individuals who creatively utilize their previous experiences and self-branding skills to promote themselves as language teachers on social media platforms and online language tutoring platforms. We argue that platformization holds important implications for TESOL, including not only for how language teachers construct their identities, but also for how we understand the category of language teacher in an age of ubiquitous social media.
Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www-wiley-com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-us
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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Author Affiliations: 1The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong City, Hong Kong