scholarly journals SOCIAL MEDIA AND ITS INFLUENCE ON VOCABULARY AND LANGUAGE LEARNING: A CASE STUDY

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahirrah Zainal ◽  
Noor Hanim Rahmat
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
New Information ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Effective Teaching And Learning

Social media is a prominent medium of communication and used by all generations. Besides a tool of communication, institutions have integrated social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube as learning tools to deliver new information and connect with students. The popularity social media gained over the years has become a debate whether social media platforms are effective teaching and learning tool. This study attempts to seek the influence of social media on English vocabulary development among students in public and private universities in Malaysia. This study also aims to explore the influence of social media on interest in language learning skill. Besides, this study investigates how these platforms cause positive and negative influence language learning. Data and responses for this study made use of questionnaires. The questionnaire data was then analyzed quantitatively using SPSS. The findings revealed that social media sparks language learning interest among English learners. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0710/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Learning English through Movies: Adult English Language Learners’ Perceptions

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waheeb S. Albiladi ◽  
Fahad H. Abdeen ◽  
Felicia Lincoln
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Reading Vocabulary

The use of media in English teaching and learning has received much attention from educators and second/foreign language educators. The use of media includes the use of movies, music, films, and other types of entertainment-related learning resources. However, little has been done to understand the adult language learners’ perceptions toward the benefits and challenges of using English movies to learn English. This qualitative research study explored English learners’ perceptions regarding the use of movies as English teaching and learning tools. The study focused on what language learners believe are the benefits and challenges of relying on English movies to develop their language competency. The study’s results indicated that language learners believed that movies are authentic sources of language learning and can be used effectively to improve language skills including speaking, listening, reading, vocabulary, and writing. Findings also revealed that according to language learners, movies are beneficial in terms of increasing students’ cultural awareness.

scholarly journals The Influence Of Social Media In Learning English For Hospitality And Tourism Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Magdalena Kartika Sari Tandy Rerung
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Business World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Main Language

<p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><em>                Since the beginning of the pandemic, education is challenged with the new method of online learning. With regards with the intervention of technology to the learning field, both students and teachers are able continue the teaching and learning process with several adjustments along the side. Social media can be one of the powerful tool during this process. Information such as text and visual are accessible based on these platforms. Therefore gaps between the what has been known and yet unknown is getting narrower. English as the main language in hospitality industry takes an important role in having an effective communication. From practice to the business world, the authenticity of information is also important. Based on the needs reviewed, the following study is discussing about the influence of social media, especially Facebook and Instagram toward the students language learning. The participants are taken from 63 Hospitality and Industry – Bunda Mulia University students who were taking General English as one of their course subjects. Results shown that most the students agree and extremely agree on how social media influence their language learning in various perspectives. Therefore as conclusions, educators as well teachers are encouraged to support their students in expressing their English whenever they use the social media platforms.</em></p>

scholarly journals Developing Little Bridge as an evidence-informed English language learning platform for 6–12 year olds

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Rogers ◽  
Kristen Weatherby
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
English Language Learning ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Global Language ◽  
The Relationship

English is considered by many to be the global language of business and communication and, as such, parents and educators in countries in which English is not a native language are now encouraging children to study English at a young age. Much second language teaching and learning, however, does not take into account the real-world context within which language will be put to use. Little Bridge has developed an English language learning platform for students aged 6−12 years, within which learners acquire English vocabulary and skills and are able to apply what they have learned in real conversations with other English learners around the world. As part of UCL’s EDUCATE research accelerator programme, Little Bridge worked with a mentor to design and conduct mixed-methods research into the relationship between this social aspect of their platform and students’ achievement in learning English. Findings suggested that Little Bridge users who are the most active participants in the platform’s social network also complete more of the platform’s learning activities and achieve better results than those with the lowest social participation rates. The relationship between the academic mentor and Little Bridge enabled the company to develop a research mindset, understand the value of the data that they already have, and improve their understanding of the platform.

scholarly journals Update Chapter English Language Learning Using Social Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-271
Author(s):  
Evi Mahsunah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Language Teaching And Learning

This study explores the changing students’ habit update status in social media into update chapter to increase their achievement in English. It is a learning strategy in English language teaching and learning using social media technology. The aim is to motivate students more active to read their literature and then share and discuss their reading in social media. The students not only have to update their chapter in reading, but also have to give comment or respond to their friends update. So, this strategy makes the students discuss their lesson more than usual. This study uses questioner and documentation technic to collect the data. Based on the data, it is known that students are already using social media for purposes that include the social and the educational. Update chapter make them using this technology in class/after class. Social media brings learning outside the classroom autonomous, independent, motivational and fun. Therefore, the students‘achievement in English language teaching and learning also increases significant.

scholarly journals Customer Engagement with Social Media Bank Pages with Reference to Facebook

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 3089-3095
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Customer Engagement ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public Sector Banks ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Public And Private Sector

Indian banking sector is going through a massive transformation day by day with the advancement of Information and communication Technology and impact of digitization in the banking industry. After the core banking system, banks have moved further to reap the benefits of internet and mobile banking. In order to engage more customers anywhere and anytime without visiting the brick and mortar branches, the banks have now introduced the social media banking. Most of the people are already active in different social media platforms, so banks have grabbed that opportunity to reach people easily and provide services through social media. This paper has made an attempt to analyze the engagement of social media customers in different banks including public and private sector with reference to facebook bank page. The results show that most of the banks have presence on popular social media platforms. With respect to the engagement of customer to all facebook posts during the study period, public sector banks are posting more on their respective facebook page but the customers’ likes as well as dislikes are more for SBI, ICICI and AXIS. In case of shares and comments, SBI and PNB have more and are increasing continuously as these two banks post more on their respective facebook pages. But with respect to customer engagement per facebook post during the study period, customers are engaged more with private sector banks. And it can be said that regarding overall customer engagement people are more engaged with private sector over public sector banks.

Social Media Analytics

2022 ◽  
pp. 385-410
Author(s):  
Časlav Kalinić ◽  
Miroslav D. Vujičić
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Social Media Analytics ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
New Information ◽  
People Participation ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Tourism Destinations

The rise of social media allowed greater people participation online. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok enable visitors to share their thoughts, opinions, photos, locations. All those interactions create a vast amount of data. Social media analytics, as a way of application of big data, can provide excellent insights and create new information for stakeholders involved in the management and development of cultural tourism destinations. This chapter advocates for the employment of the big data concept through social media analytics that can contribute to the management of visitors in cultural tourism destinations. In this chapter, the authors highlight the principles of big data and review the most influential social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. On that basis, they disclose opportunities for the management and marketing of cultural tourism destinations.

Investigating the Effects of Social Media on Higher Education with a Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 2040023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mamoun Masoud Abdulqader ◽  
Yousof Zohair Almunsour
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media In Education ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Teaching Learning

This research aims to investigate the effects of social media use on higher education teaching and learning as well as the students’ academic performance. A total of 275 students and faculty members from the College of Computer Science and Information Technology at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University took part in the study. The participants answered survey questions to analyse information on their use of social media in education and how that has affected their teaching, learning and grades. A majority of the participants reported that they used social media in training. However, they also stated that social media platforms were beneficial in academic matters. The number of participants who stated that the use of social media in learning helped improve their grades was 43%. The other 57% thought that social media had no impact on their grades or had an adverse effect or were undecided.

scholarly journals ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE EDMODO USAGE IN LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR ENGLISH LITERATURE STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Herland Franley Manalu ◽  
Diana Anggraeni ◽  
Asrul Munazar
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
The University

The increment of concern in the use of online learning tools into English Language Teaching to adopt the Industrial Revolution 4.0 has inspired this study to examine students’ thoughts on Edmodo, as one of the online learning tools, at the English Literature department within the University of Bangka Belitung. Edmodo is used by the researchers to discuss the students’ attitude in improving their English skills. Data were collected by means of questionnaires and interview. A Likert scale questionnaire was administered and open-ended interviews were conducted to get more information from the students. Data were qualitatively and quantitatively analysed by using SPSS v.22 Software. The results reveal that the Edmodo usage is aiding students’ cooperation in small group discussions, reflecting that teaching and learning activities established on the ground of communicative teaching method were able to improve cooperation and communication, raising students’ motivation to take part and involve in various learning and also empowering them to be self-determining and be more responsible for their own learning. This study is an endeavor to attract more researchers to do further investigations on this area within the Indonesian English learners at the university level.

scholarly journals LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES: GENDER AND PROFICIENCY

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Idham Syahputra
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Education ◽  
Language Learning Strategies ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Cognitive Memory

This study described and examined on the current English language learning strategies used by Indonesian Students English Education Department enrolled at State Islamic University of Sultan SyarifKasim Riau in Indonesia. The subjects of the study were (99) male and female students still studying for their Undergraduate degree in English Education Department. The study investigates the frequency of strategies use among these students according to gender and proficiency variables. Proficiency is reflected by students’ learning level (i.e., sophomore, junior, senior), self-reported proficiency in English (i.e., the students’ university average in English courses) and language self-efficacy (i.e,. how good the students perceived themselves as English learners). The collecting data used Questionnaire adopted from Oxford (1990a), Mohammad Amin Embi (1996) danPolitzer (1993), interview lecturers about the language learning strategies used by students. The results of this study showed that State Islamic University of Sultan SyarifKasim, English Education Department used learning strategies with high to medium frequency, and that the highest rank (79.6%) was for Metacognitive strategies while the lowest (63%) was for compensation strategies and the others used cognitive, memory, affective and social. In general, the results showed that gender and proficiency had no significant differences on the use of strategies. Based on these findings, the researcher recommends that more training should be given in using Cognitive, Memory, Affective, social and Compensation strategies by embedding them into regular classroom activities or teaching and learning process

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