TIKTOK FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING

Submitted to Fulfill the Assignment of the Digital Technology For Language

Study (DTLS)
Pascasarjana Institut Agama Islam (IAIN) Palopo

Supporting Lecturer:
Dr. Jufriadi, S.S., M.Pd

Arranged by,

FRISKA WIDYASTUTI

Nim: 2205040003

PASCASARJANA
INSTITUT AGAMA ISLAM NEGERI (IAIN)
PALOPO
2022
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

First of all, thanks to Allah SWT because of the help of Allah, writer finished
writing the paper entitled "Approach, Method and Technique in Language
Teaching" right in the calculated time.

The purpose in writing this paper is to fulfill the assignment EFL Methodology.

In arranging this paper, the writer trully get lots challenges and obstructions but
with help of many indiviuals, those obstructions could passed. Writer also realized
there are still many mistakes in process of writing this paper.

Because of that, the writer says thank you to all individuals who helps in the
process of writing this paper. hopefully allah replies all helps and bless you all.the
writer realized that this paper still imperfect in arrangment and the content. then
the writer hope the criticism from the readers can help the writer in perfecting the
next paper.last but not the least.

Palopo, 17 June 2022

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 TABLE OF CONTENT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ……………………………………… 2
TABLE OF CONTENT …………3
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION ……………………………
A. Background …………………………………………………………………
B. Problem Formulation …………………………………………………… 5
C. Destination ………………………………………………………… 5
D. Benefit……………………………………………………………………… 6
CHAPTER II DISCUSSION
A. Teaching Approach………………..……………………………………… 6
B. Method…………………………………………………………..…………. 10
C. Technique……………………………………………………………… ….. 14
CHAPTER III CONCLUSION ……………………………………………………
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REFERENCES ……………………………………………………………………….18

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 CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

A. Background of Study
TikTok is a social network launched in the Chinese market in 2016 (as
Douyin) and internationally in 2017 (as TikTok). In 2018, it was the most
downloaded mobile app in the United States, and is currently available in more
than 150 countries, and has more than 800 million monthly active users [1]. Of
these, 41% are between 16 and 24 [2], a younger demographic than we find on
other social networks. TikTok allows users to create and share short videos (15
to 60 seconds) that are quick and easy to edit with various effects and sounds
included in its gallery.
In May 2020, TikTok launched LearnOnTikTok program, which consists of
educational videos to facilitate learning during COVID-19 lockdowns
[3].These videos are authored by professionals from different disciplines,
students, and other users, who have shared their knowledge to this social
network's audiences [4]. The videos linked to the hashtag #learnontiktok, have
varied topics: from chemistry experiments, cooking recipes, health tips,
learning other languages, to creating origami figures, all created by its users.
Previous studies confirm that the use of video mini- lectures improves
participants' satisfaction [5]. Storytelling becomes vital to connect these
learning elements together, and videos provide a natural way to tell stories.
Educational video motivation is to engage and drive the learner to feel
ownership of their own learning and associate themselves with the course's
stories [6].
TikTok has the ideal format and tools for authors to create short educational
videos. Currently, LearnOnTikTok videos have 72 billion views, and hundreds
are uploaded every day. However, inferring the knowledge areas from the
learning content available in posts can be challenging since the message
conveyed is also supported by a combination of music, audio, and text snippets
included in the video. To achieve this goal, we propose a framework that
includes some steps, such as gathering the TikTok videos, processing text and
audio metadata information that is part of videos using computer vision and
audio recognition techniques. It also contemplates processes for classifying the
information collected into knowledge categories using natural language
processing and machine learning techniques.
Also, we researched the demographics of authors and calculated statistics on
areas of knowledge most viewed by users. We explored the idea that text
metadata and audios available in the videos are the best predictors of the
knowledge areas, much more than the description of each video written by
authors.
The rest of this work is structured as follows: Section 2 describes the related
work, Section 3 presents the proposed methodology, Section 4 describes the
results of the case study analysis, and Section 5 presents the conclusions and
future work components, incorporating the applicable criteria that follow.

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 B. Problem Statement
Basad on the background describe above, the question of the problema
can be formulated as follows :
1. What is the definition of Tik Tok ?
2. Why Tik Tok use For language teaching?
3. What are advantages of learning language by Tik Tok ?
4. What are disadvantages of learning language by Tik Tok?

C. Objectives
Based on the problem statement describe above, the formulation of the
objective as follows :
1. To find out the definition of Tik Tok ?
2. To find out why Tik Tok use for language teaching?
3. To find out the advantages of learning language by Tik Tok ?
4. To find out the disadvantages of learning language by Tik Tok?

CHAPTER II

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 LITERATURE REVIEW

A. Definition of You Tik Tok

TikTok is one of the newer kids on the social media block, launched in China in
the fall of 2016 and globally the following year. By July of 2020, TikTok had 689
million active users outside China, where it operates under the name Douyin.
That’s enough to make it the seventh most popular social media network, ahead of
older platforms such as Twitter and Snapchat. TikTok’s users are known to skew
young — in the United States, most users are below 30 — but its platform has
attracted both teachers and learners.

During the pandemic, TikTok launched a $50 million Creative Learning Fund,
part of a larger $250 million initiative to support communities, that specifically
“supports creators with the production of learning content, provides resources for
learners, and introduces emerging teachers to the TikTok platform.”

It is not without controversy, however. K-12 schools are leery of the potential for
online bullying and they worry that the anonymity of posters, who don’t form
networks in the same way that, say, Facebook users do, can lead to people feeling
less accountable for their behavior. As an example, the platform allows for dual
videos, and there have been cases of a user adding a video next to someone else’s
that mocks or attacks them. For their part, TikTok has responded by adding anti-
bullying resources to their website and encourages users to report any harassment.

During the pandemic, TikTok launched a $50 million Creative Learning Fund,
part of a larger $250 million initiative to support communities, that specifically
“supports creators with the production of learning content, provides resources for
learners, and introduces emerging teachers to the TikTok platform.” Engaging
such well-known figures as Bill Nye, Tyra Banks, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, the
company noted, “The joy of learning on TikTok is that the content offers
instructional tips and takeaways in a creative format, teaching something useful,
and inspiring users to seek out more information in a way that is fun and
engaging. Our community has been drawn to videos that highlight unique science
experiments, useful life hacks, creative math tricks, easy DIY projects, and
motivational messages and advice.”

Not surprisingly, teachers and learners of English are on TikTok too.

B. TikTok as Language Teaching

TikTok offers users a unique way to share creative videos of themselves,

their surroundings, or a collection of external audiovisual content. external
audiovisual content. The most straightforward videos consist only of text

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superimposed on a colored background. Videos can be more complex by
including images, video clips, and sounds. Images and video sequences can be
modified using the application's voice effects, picture filters, and video speed
controllers. The maximum length of a video post is 60 seconds and can consist of
a collection of videos that, combined, tell a story [11]. When users post videos,
they can add a caption with hashtags to describe their clips. As on Twitter, the
most commonly used hashtags represent topics that are trending on the platform,
and while on Instagram, videos are categorized according to their hashtags [12].
TikTok is considered a social media platform because, like Twitter and
Instagram, its users have a social group of followers and other users they follow.
However, the main feature that differentiates TikTok from other social networks
is the videos' background music representing the core message that users want to
convey. Users can choose the background music for their videos from a wide
variety of music genres. From a wide variety of music genres, and can even create
original sound clips, original sound clips. Any sound clip, including users' voice
messages, can be selected by other users for their videos. In many videos, dance
music, a lip-sync battle, or the backdrop to a comedy sketch. However, sound can
also function as a story builder and can convey a specific message.
Users access to content by viewing a feed of videos generated by an algorithm on
the 'For You' page. Although it is not described how the algorithm works, the
videos that appear to the user are primarily based on a central recommendation
algorithm rather than on the user's social network activities.
Medina et al [7]. explore TikTok videos related to US politics and
evaluated textual, aural, and visual information extracted from them, and analyze
the different levels of communication made possible by the platform design and
especially concentrated on TikTok’s unique duet feature. Escamilla-Fajarde et al
[8] explores TikTok as a teaching- learning tool in the body expression courses of
the sports science degree because of the ease with which the platform adapts to
the subject's expressive and creative content through music and movement.
Dyer et al [9], analyzes, TikTok’s public health impact during the
COVID-19 pandemic, and how the medical community use the unique
characteristics of TikTok to deliver information to users, as well as for targeted
training for medical education. Medical professionals have used the platform to
share videos with the public on topics ranging from vaping associated lung
injury and the importance of a primary care doctor to her video explaining
symptoms of COVID-19. Ponzanelli et al [10]. developed a recommender
system to predict relevant YouTube videos. In addition to the audio transcripts,
they used an OCR tool to transfers the actual video information (e.g., slides or
subtitles) into text. They focus on showing relevant StackOverflow posts for
random YouTube videos and tutorials.

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 CHAPTER III
CONCLUSION

TikTok is a platform that, in addition to entertaining videos, gives a young

and global audience access to a new format of short educational videos created
by expert authors. This perspective presents several opportunities for the
dissemination of knowledge in various fields of science concisely and
effectively.

The proposed framework allows us to identify in an automatic way the

main areas of knowledge associated with educational videos on the TikTok
platform and which areas are the most preferred by users. This information
would allow us to add efforts in important knowledge areas, but which are
not widely accepted or have few content creators. In our sample, we find a
more extensive collection of Health Sciences videos and related to STEM
areas, even higher than social sciences such as law and education, which gives
an impression of the potential of this type of videos for science learning. The
study also confirmed that most authors are people under the age of 34, who
also represent the largest audience on the social network.

This study also supports the idea that audio and text metadata information
available in short TikTok videos contains concepts that give rise to a better
understanding of the video learning topics than even the descriptions registered by
the authors. In future work, we will explore how to measure the message's
understanding in the videos from both approaches.

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