What is it about?
Our research focuses on the meaning of social nets and social messengers in learning a foreign language, on the example of English. The urgency of the issues of education on the whole and the theory and practice of learning languages, including related to the current trends of global changes, increasing the role of the educational sphere, applying new methods of teaching and modern technologies. This is a decisive international trends in its development, which comes down to the processes of transfer of knowledge, on which the educational system relies, accordance with the realities of our days. This kind of reflection allowed us to make a hypothesis that social networks are a powerful resource for language learning for both personal and professional purposes. Which gives a strong motivation, active students participation and engagement in educational process, involving both teachers and students into multilingual technology environment. The study consists of two parts. The first part is a systematic review of the scientific literature focused on social media platforms as an integral part in English learning among students. The second part of the study contains a conclusion drawn based on an analysis of social network users' preferences for foreign language learning. Social networks are presented in the article as an additional resource for studying foreign languages for general and professional purposes, motivating teachers and students to actively participate and engage in a multilingual technical environment.
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Why is it important?
In the research, we conducted a social survey to determine the role of ICT in multilingual learning via social nets on the example of English as a foreign language (EFL). This allowed us to build a framework model using modern social net messengers as: WhatsApp, Telegram, and VK Messenger to receive and share information and instructional materials for teachers and students.
Perspectives
This study confirms the possibility of social networks to integrate the linguistic diversity as a useful tool in the learning process. Sharing and receiving learning materials through social media and using various digital tools have shown how students can improve word comprehension in context, increase language levels using text, audio, and video files, and develop skills not only verbally but also in writing through group chats on messengers.
Associate Professor Yulia Andreevna Petrova
Rostovskij gosudarstvennyj ekonomiceskij universitet
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This page is a summary of: A Communicative Approach for Foreign Language Learning via Social Media, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26783-3_39.
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