A didactic tool for updating the teaching-learning process of English as a foreign language

Abstract

The teaching-learning process is a binomial in constant change due to its actors and contexts. Therefore, this process requires an update to respond to students’ needs according to their learning styles. Given this situation, the objective of this study is to know if TikTok, as a didactic tool, can contribute to said educational update and develop oral skills since it centers on communicative competence. Regarding the methodology, the descriptive quantitative approach took place on a 50-student sample enrolled in an extracurricular course. The findings provide contributions of a theoretical nature since they characterize TikTok as a didactic tool to update the English teaching-learning process with an innovative, participatory, and collaborative methodology with motivational features and ubiquitous learning. Besides, it contributes to oral skills development through the construction of knowledge, interpersonal relationships, discursive and sociocultural skills development, and the promotion of positive attitudes towards work (commitment).