Title: Research on Foreign Language Acquisition within the New Media Linguistic and Cultural Ecology
Authors: Xiaoquan Pan
Liuyan Yuan
Volume: 10
Issue: 4
Pages: 157-163
Publication Date: 2026/04/28
Abstract:
The deep mediatization brought about by mobile internet technology is reshaping the ecology of foreign language acquisition, shifting learning practices from the one-way transmission of traditional classrooms towards distributed cognitive fields. Grounded in sociocultural theory, ecological language learning perspectives, and multimodal discourse analysis, this study systematically unpacks the mechanisms by which the new media linguistic and cultural ecology reconstructs foreign language acquisition pathways: (1) Algorithmically-driven personalized content flows and decentralized platforms construct dynamic language immersion environments, facilitating multi-dimensional social interaction and cognitive internalization; (2) The synergistic interplay of multimodal semiotic resources engenders transmedia communicative competence, propelling foreign language proficiency beyond the boundaries of traditional skills; (3) Learners are transformed into proactive ecological constructors, accelerating language internalization and cultural capital accumulation through creative practices and community collaboration; (4) Algorithmic mediation, while optimizing learning efficiency, simultaneously harbors the risk of diminishing cultural cognition. The research elucidates the profound transformations wrought by the new media ecology on the development of foreign language competence, providing theoretical pathways and practical frameworks for innovating language education paradigms in the digital age.