Impacts of Social Media on Language Learning: A Review of Literature

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211220.128How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social Media; Language Learning; Language Skills; Intercultural Communication

Abstract

This paper reviews social media impacts on language learning, emphasising social media as language skill development tools and social media as intercultural communication platforms. Specifically, the former focuses on the potential influences of social media as language skills development tools on reading and writing, listening and speaking, respectively; and the latter focuses on the possible impacts of social media as intercultural communication platforms on socio-pragmatic skills and L2 motivation. The result indicates social media merit multiple benefits and functions in the language learning processes, such as adequate authentic input resources, less stressful practice spaces, plenty of intercultural communication opportunities, and enhanced learner collaboration. The study also highlights potential limitations of social media platforms, for example, distraction and conflicting information concerns. At last, several future directions have been proposed for upcoming empirical research.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

Open Access

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yonghong Zhou
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Impacts of Social Media on Language Learning: A Review of Literature
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 743
EP  - 749
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.128
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.128
ID  - Zhou2021
ER  -