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T1 Catalan Teenagers’ Identity, Literacy and Language Practices on YouTube
A1 Vázquez Calvo, Boris
A1 Elf, Nikolaj
A1 Gewerc Barujel, Adriana
A2 Freiermuth, Mark R.
A2 Zarrinabadi, Nourollah
K1 Catalan teenagers
K1 Identity
K1 Literacy
K1 Language practices
K1 Youtube
AB This chapter addresses the interconnection between identity building andthe use and learning of language and literacy online. We will do sothrough a case study that investigates the specifics of three Catalan teenagelanguage users and learners who use YouTube as a multimodal spaceof confluence for making meaning. We will particularly address threeresearch questions:1. How do teenage language users and learners in Catalonia appropriateYouTube?2. What means of performing identity do teenagers in Catalonia employon YouTube?3. How do teenagers in Catalonia as youtubers develop such means ofidentity representation and performance in relation to language andliteracy practices?
PB Palgrave Macmillan
SN 978-3-030-34211-1
SN 978-3-030-34212-8
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32125
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32125
LA eng
NO Vazquez-Calvo, B., Elf, N., Gewerc, A. (2020). Catalan Teenagers’ Identity, Literacy and Language Practices on YouTube. In: Freiermuth, M.R., Zarrinabadi, N. (eds) Technology and the Psychology of Second Language Learners and Users. New Language Learning and Teaching Environments. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34212-8_10
NO This research was supported in part by a postdoctoral grant from the autonomous government of Galicia (Xunta de Galicia, Spain) awarded to Boris Vazquez-Calvo (ED481B 2017/007). This research was also supported by the research project ForVid (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities—National Research Agency, Spain: Video as a language learning format in and outside schools, RTI2018-100790-B-I00). There is also collaboration with the research project CDEPI (FEDER/Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities—National Research Agency, Spain: Competencia digital y e-inclusión del alumnado de educación primaria de Galicia: el papel de la escuela, la familia y el entorno próximo, EDU2015-67975-C3-1-P).
DS Minerva
RD 29 abr 2026