Thursday, 27 March 2014

BENEFITS OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO LEARN ENGLISH LANGUAGE



      Nowadays, there are many people use social media as a medium to learn English language. In Malaysia, some of the brilliantly people from different ages, nations and states especially students use this medium to learn from it. For instance, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, Youtube and Blog are used. There are some benefits of social media to learn English language.

Example of Social Media
      Internet provides us a translation part. Nowadays, we are able to know the exact or real pronunciation from each country dialect or accent such as American, United Kingdom, British and so on. The simplest and famous example of social media is Facebook or Skype. With these two, we may able to make friends from overseas. Besides that, we can take this as a challenge for ourself to learn to speak and write in English properly by having a conservation with the friends or family. As a concern in improving our English skills, skype get us talking. Consequently, we converse, which is putting our English speaking and listening skills into action.

      In addition, social media give us another ways to communicate with a professional English teacher or lecturer. Some of them prepare questions or homework in term of soft copy. Therefore, any information, solution, and answer from latest questions can just be uploaded in this kind of social media. Furthermore, if we have any problem about a difficult subject or some student might call it the "killer subject", we can share the problem on Facebook or Twitter. Then, the person who knows the answer to the problem will be able to share their knowledge and also change ideas in that virtual medium.


      Furthermore, we are also able to watch any English movie from youtube. From listening while reading the subtitles, we can learn the English words and phrasing from the videos. In order to learn effectively, we can write any word that we did not understand into a list of word so we can look it up later. After finishing the movie/video, go through the word list that we have write to find the meaning of those new words through Google translate.

Lets we see how social media influence us to learn English language.

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      For Twitter, we send our tweets (a posting on social network) to our friends or followers and we can follow other people who we find interesting and read their tweets in a simplest English. In this way, Twitter helps us to improve our knowledge about English language and also reading skills. We can read a variety of short messages on a myriad of subjects. Hence, we learn new words, turns of phrase which all will help us to build our English vocabulary better.

      In conclusion, there are many benefits of social media to learn English language. It is hoped that we can use this challenges in order to improve our English language from day by day.



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