A Review of TikTok as a Teaching Tool in Applied Writing Courses in China

Author(s)	Chen Zeng, Jose Ma W. Gopez
Country	Philippines
Abstract	According to China Youth Net, the social media platform TikTok integrates entertainment, cultural dissemination, and knowledge integration, and has been called a moveable classroom. The course of application writing is a public basic course in Chinese higher vocational colleges and universities, and the problems of boring learning content, single teaching method, and students' low interest in learning have become bottlenecks restricting the development of teaching reform. At present, there are few empirical studies on how to effectively integrate TikTok into the curriculum, and the existing literature has not been fully explored. The purpose of this paper is to review and analyze the literature related to the topics of social media, TikTok, application writing course in order to provide a reference for decision-making on how to effectively use TikTok in education and teaching and explore the theoretical system of teaching educational technology and new media, and how to carry out the pedagogical reform for educators.
Keywords	TikTok; social media integration, teaching and learning; Applied Writing Courses
Field	Sociology > Education
Published In	Volume 7, Issue 1, January-February 2025
Published On	2025-02-12
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i01.36857
Short DOI	https://doi.org/g84xhv

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