Students' Perceptions of Integrating Social Networking Sites in Language Learning: Benefits and Challenges

El-Sawy, Hosam ElDeen Ahmed

doi:10.21608/jrciet.2015.24560

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“…Mervat Abd Elfatah Ali Said Ahmed (2016) also reported based on the quasi-experimental research on using Facebook grammar discussion and writing skills that students wrote better using more meaningful contents with well-organized and grammatically structured essay in the post-test. This is also in line with studies which discovered that social media-facilitated writing could help the students to be more conscious towards punctuations, spelling and grammar structures in writing (Akhiar, Mydin, & Kasuma, 2017;El-Sawy, 2015;Hashim et al, 2018).…”

Section: Integration Of Social Media Into Esl Writing Classroomsupporting

confidence: 88%

“…Previous studies of integrating social media in ESL writing classroom has yielded positive results in learners' writing attitudes, for example, developing language awareness through collaborative writing on social media (Tay & Allen, 2011), enhancing their writing motivation (Chandran, Plaindaren, Pavadai, & Yunus, 2019) and building confidence in learning ESL writing (El-Sawy, 2015;Saad et al, 2014). The interactions among students through writing on social networking site has fostered cooperative and collaborative learning (Toetenel, 2014).…”

Section: Integration Of Social Media Into Esl Writing Classroommentioning

confidence: 99%

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Using social media in writing among Primary School pupils

Yuk¹,

Yunus

Suliman

2019

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The advancement of technology has brought transformation in education. Utilisation of social media to promote learning are increasing exponentially at secondary and tertiary education levels. However, the researcher was still doubting using social media on current primary school pupils. Thus, this study aimed to explore the use of social media among primary school pupils and how they perceive towards the use of English in writing on social media. Questionnaires were distributed among 37 primary 4 pupils in a Chinese vernacular school in a Southern state in Malaysia. The findings showed that YouTube is the most prominent tool used among the pupils and they have good competency in using the social media which they always use. Pupils use social media for academically and non-academically purposes. However, slightly more than half of the pupils do not have positive perceptions towards using English in writing on social media. Social media could be exploited in learning writing activities to increase the awareness of pupils towards a better writing performance.

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Section: Integration Of Social Media Into Esl Writing Classroomsupporting

confidence: 88%