Role of Social Media in English Language Learning to the Adult Learners

Datos Bibliográficos

ID22219031
AutoresMeenakshi Sharma Yadav (0000-0001-7962-3267, King Khalid University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen4
Número1
Páginas238-247
Fecha de publicación2021-01-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Linguistics Literature & Translation (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2617-0299 • E-ISSN: 2708-0099
EditorialAl-Kindi Center for Research and Development (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.1.25
OpenAlexW4233062195
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas8

Today social media has become part and parcel of adults’ lives. Adult learners use social media much as a key to learn and improve their English as a foreign language (EFL) in academics. Currently, English instructors also encourage their adult learners within the realm of technologies. These learners are too self-motivated to use social media tools to learn English language skills. During texting, chatting, and socializing with friends, family, and global society on Facebook, WhatsApp, Blogs, Wikis, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, Telegram, Hangout, and Snapchat, social media are facilitating and enhancing the process for both teachers and the adult learners worldwide. Due to proliferation of advanced technological equipped electronic handy-gadgets, like smartphones, tablets, laptops, and watches, EFL learners (EFLL) with different social media applications (Apps) and tools have become easy, mobile, and flexible. Even spectacular innovation and creation of mobile Apps of international testing agencies and institutes for EFLL are available formally and informally worldwide. Therefore, in this scientific descriptive research article, the critical study investigates the hypothetical propositions about the presumed relations among observed phenomena and personal experience of various websites and social media Apps' interwoven role, creative ways of functioning, and prospects scientifically in the EFLL for adult learners. An adult learner can master a specific skill while using these Apps on social media. Moreover, it is supposed to be handled meticulously and precisely. In that case, social media can prove a boon and panacea for adult learners inside and outside the classroom

Foreign language · Mathematics education · Political science · Realm · Social media · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Foreign Language Teaching Methods · Innovations in Education and Learning Technologies · Psychology · Technology-Enhanced Education Studies