Exploring Ways of Using Facebook and Instagram in Teaching English
- DOI
- 10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.66How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- social media; facebook; instagram; teaching media; teaching activities
- Abstract
Nowadays, the use of social media platforms becomes more popular for students. Social media is a web-based platform which permits the users to interact, communicate, and collaborate to others. This changes learning environment as social media gives easy and flexible feature. It is easy to use and easy to access. The feature and flexible use are found as the main reason why social media is a great media in language teaching. Among popular social media platforms in the world, Facebook and Instagram belong to social media which mostly used by people. Through Facebook and Instagram, users enable to share, post, and comment photos, videos, and reading text posted by other users. By sharing and commenting on these social media platforms, students’ social networking practices are strengthened automatically. Using Facebook and Instagram provides great opportunities to improve English language teaching and learning process in and beyond the classroom. Teachers can develop the activities by utilizing these social media platforms creatively. Thus, students will feel more motivated toward English learning. This paper will give an overview of the main advantages of using Facebook and Instagram and explore activities how to use these social media platforms in English language teaching and learning practice.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hadna Suryantari AU - Joko Priyana PY - 2018/07 DA - 2018/07 TI - Exploring Ways of Using Facebook and Instagram in Teaching English BT - Proceedings of the International Conference of Communication Science Research (ICCSR 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 298 EP - 301 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.66 DO - 10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.66 ID - Suryantari2018/07 ER -