Making the Best Use of Social Media in English Classroom

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200204.036How to use a DOI?

Keywords

social media, English classroom, communicative language teaching

Abstract

In the era of 21st century, education has been growing to more practical world to meet the demands of humans’ needs. One of the skills in the 21st century is the use of media and technology to support classroom activities at which those activities should resemble current trend in the world. In order to help students prepare the job required in the future when information is connected by technology, teachers should have known about how to bring real interaction to classroom situations. Besides, English will inevitably be the most widely spoken language throughout the world. This paper describes the use of social media in English classroom and proposes a practical way to make the best use of it. Social media can be used in three teaching stages (pre, whilst and post teaching to its best. Youtube and mind mapping can be used to teach warming up activities, LINE and Whatsapp can be used to foster practical life skills in whilst teaching and post teaching.

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© 2020, 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/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Anisa Nur Pratiwi
AU  - Pangesti Wiedarti
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/12
TI  - Making the Best Use of Social Media in English Classroom
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Research and Innovation (ICERI 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 197
EP  - 199
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200204.036
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200204.036
ID  - Pratiwi2020
ER  -