Social media: engaging language learning
Most of youth nowadays have a problem of failing to perceive learning English as important as learning other subjects and therefore, slowly losing interest to get engaged in English lessons. Since Instagram, Twitter and other social media have been the main medium for them to express and share their...
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Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia
2018
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| author | Mohd Sukri, Hanna Insyirah Mustapha, Liyana Othman, Moomala Aralas, Dalia Ismail, Lilliati |
| author_facet | Mohd Sukri, Hanna Insyirah Mustapha, Liyana Othman, Moomala Aralas, Dalia Ismail, Lilliati |
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| description | Most of youth nowadays have a problem of failing to perceive learning English as important as learning other subjects and therefore, slowly losing interest to get engaged in English lessons. Since Instagram, Twitter and other social media have been the main medium for them to express and share their ideas, this paper will discuss how the usage of social media helps in engaging language learners to use the target language in informal contexts. Today, teachers started to realize that some of these internet tools such as Facebook, Instagram, Email, and others are very useful in promoting language skills among students in schools. However, it cannot be assumed that students know the values of these tools in promoting their language learning. This paper will specifically look at Twitter and Instagram, the two major platforms of social media that are widely used among youth nowadays and adopt these mediums as the main agent of engagement for students in using the target language. Thus, instead of teachers looking at the negative side of social media, they should use it in class as a channel for language learning and teaching and direct students to realize social network as a catalyst to improve their English. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-666712019-03-04T00:17:08Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/66671/ Social media: engaging language learning Mohd Sukri, Hanna Insyirah Mustapha, Liyana Othman, Moomala Aralas, Dalia Ismail, Lilliati Most of youth nowadays have a problem of failing to perceive learning English as important as learning other subjects and therefore, slowly losing interest to get engaged in English lessons. Since Instagram, Twitter and other social media have been the main medium for them to express and share their ideas, this paper will discuss how the usage of social media helps in engaging language learners to use the target language in informal contexts. Today, teachers started to realize that some of these internet tools such as Facebook, Instagram, Email, and others are very useful in promoting language skills among students in schools. However, it cannot be assumed that students know the values of these tools in promoting their language learning. This paper will specifically look at Twitter and Instagram, the two major platforms of social media that are widely used among youth nowadays and adopt these mediums as the main agent of engagement for students in using the target language. Thus, instead of teachers looking at the negative side of social media, they should use it in class as a channel for language learning and teaching and direct students to realize social network as a catalyst to improve their English. Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2018 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/66671/1/MICELT_2018-5.pdf Mohd Sukri, Hanna Insyirah and Mustapha, Liyana and Othman, Moomala and Aralas, Dalia and Ismail, Lilliati (2018) Social media: engaging language learning. In: 12th Malaysia International Conference on English Language Teaching (MICELT) 2018, 5-6 Oct. 2018, TNC (PI) Building, Universiti Putra Malaysia. (pp. 206-210). |
| spellingShingle | Mohd Sukri, Hanna Insyirah Mustapha, Liyana Othman, Moomala Aralas, Dalia Ismail, Lilliati Social media: engaging language learning |
| title | Social media: engaging language learning |
| title_full | Social media: engaging language learning |
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| title_short | Social media: engaging language learning |
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