Multilingual encounters in online video practices: the case of Portuguese university students

Watching Netflix, YouTube or TikTok videos are day-to-day activities of young people which can produce different language encounters. We argue that watching online opens opportunities for students to use their plurilingual repertoires through and combined modalities analysing these practices is useful construct the multi-situated learning in classroom. This an exploratory study aims document how Portuguese university engage video practices, meaning videos, reacting commenting on videos. In 2022, we issued a questionnaire aimed at all University Aveiro, collected 212 full responses, analysed it descriptive statistics. The results attest diversity new media, where English, though dominating, not only foreign used by participants, featuring Spanish, French, Korean Japanese. To understand languages, participants mostly subtitles languages intercomprehension strategies. were confident they learnt especially English Romance languages. These indicate frequently lead valuable multilingual multimodal encounters, hence could be beneficial classroom enrich students’ multiliteracies.