TY - JOUR
T1 - Social Media Web 2.0 Tools Adoption in Language and Literacy Development in Early Years
T2 - A Scoping Review
AU - Zhao, Yiran
AU - Lu, Jinjin
AU - Woodcock, Stuart
AU - Ren, Yuejing
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University RDF, number: RDF-21-01-009. The APC was funded by Y. Zhao.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the authors.
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - Social media tools are increasingly used in child’s language and literacy development in early years. However, few researchers shed light on effectiveness and the practice that the EC professionals and teachers have adopted in ECE settings and other related contexts. This scoping review synthesized and evaluated the literature on social media integration in language and literacy development in ECE in the last decade, to provide a clearer picture on what social media tools were used, how they were used, and whether they were effective. Results showed that a wide-range of social media tools were used in diverse learning activities; however, few studies designed the learning activities with the guidance of an evidence-based teaching method or pedagogical framework.
AB - Social media tools are increasingly used in child’s language and literacy development in early years. However, few researchers shed light on effectiveness and the practice that the EC professionals and teachers have adopted in ECE settings and other related contexts. This scoping review synthesized and evaluated the literature on social media integration in language and literacy development in ECE in the last decade, to provide a clearer picture on what social media tools were used, how they were used, and whether they were effective. Results showed that a wide-range of social media tools were used in diverse learning activities; however, few studies designed the learning activities with the guidance of an evidence-based teaching method or pedagogical framework.
KW - child development in early childhood education
KW - language and literacy
KW - pedagogical framework
KW - scoping review
KW - social media tools
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85144721571&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/children9121901
DO - 10.3390/children9121901
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85144721571
SN - 2227-9067
VL - 9
JO - Children
JF - Children
IS - 12
M1 - 1901
ER -
