O potencial de ensino de uma língua estrangeira em REELS da plataforma Instagram

Abstract

Social media has become an integral part of everyday life, with its digital users producing, sharing, and interacting on those social platforms. Each application has distinct proposals: some focus solely on communication, while others offer tools for the production and public sharing of content. Instagram, this research´s object of study, is a social networking site that offers several resources, allowing the creation, edition, and publishment of content on the digital platform. One of these resources is Reels, where up to 90 seconds of videos can be recorded and edited with the tools provided by the platform, and then published on a specific timeline for those reels. These videos can be classified by genre, but the focus of the analysis is the reels from profiles that have the purpose of teaching a foreign language, investigating how these short videos can contribute to the learning process. The goal of this research is to analyze whether the reels published by four accounts are constructed based on the concept of communicative competence (Celce-Murcia, 2007). It is expected that, through these publications, the apprentice will develop their skills in the target language, so it is essential to investigate whether the reels can contribute to the teaching process. The method adopted is qualitative, with the collection of ten reels from four distinct profiles with different native languages and academic backgrounds, but all of them with videos aimed at teaching the English language. After the collection, five videos from each account were analyzed, since the proposals of the videos are similar, it was decided to select five of the ten reels collected. During the analysis, it was found that the skills related to ready-made phrases and lexical explanations are recurrent in most accounts, in addition to some skills from the Celce-Murcia model (2007) not being contemplated. Concluding conclude, reels can contribute to the FL/L2 teaching process by providing tips on the target language, but it is not possible to classify Instagram reels as a space for teaching FL/L2.