Social media is an application that uses Web 2.0 technology and gives users the opportunity to produce materials in various forms such as text, audio, and video that can be shared with other users. So indirectly, it can be used in learning a foreign language. Therefore this study aims to critically analyze and synthesize the research trends of foreign language learning through social media. Thus the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) database was used to find articles related to the objectives of the study from 2017 to 2021. The PRISMA model was used in this study to meet the objectives of the study. An article search using social media and foreign language keywords through the database has found a total of 39906 articles. However, only 14 articles met the requirements and were selected for further analysis. Overall, this study has the potential to be further developed by researchers who are interested in the study of aging language learning research trends through social media with a longer study period and may also involve other languages.

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The selection of learning media is one of the important factors that influence the success of the learning process. The selection and use of appropriate and interesting media will have a positive impact on student learning success. However, the use of learning media that integrate gamification elements is still not widely practiced in Arabic language learning in Malaysia. Therefore, this study aims to identify students' perceptions on the use of gamification in Arabic language learning by using Gamilab media as a learning application. The study design used was a quantitative study. This study involved 149 respondents who took Arabic as a third language course at UiTM Shah Alam. Questionnaire instruments were used for data collection purposes. The collected data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Science version 26.0 to obtain descriptive data. The findings show that students' perceptions of the use of gamification in learning Arabic are at a high level with a mean value = 4.31. Thus, this study is expected to help Arabic language educators to improve the quality of Arabic language teaching by diversifying the use of the medium in Arabic language teaching.

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