How Iraqi college learners can make use of social media in learning english grammatical topics effectively

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This paper aims at determining the role that social media plays nowadays in learning English grammatical topics among Iraqi College undergraduates.

Exactly forty students of the First Year in the Department of Translation, Basra University were randomly selected to be the participants of this study.

To measure participants' attitudes toward the use of social media as a tool to expedite and enhance the learning of English Grammar, the study participants are given a 10-question questionnaire to tick one out of five boxes that corresponds their attitudes toward social media.

Results disclosed that majority of the participants use social media platforms to expedite and upgrade acquisition of English grammatical topics on daily basis.

Besides, results stemmed from the questionnaire indicated that participants trust and believe in the power of the social media platforms in enhancing learners' self-confidence, motivation and collaboration in learning English grammatical topics.