The impacts of social media on Kurdish EFL students' English language proficiency
Other Title(s)
تأثير وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي على اتقان اللغة الانكليزية كلغة أجنبية لدى الطلاب الأكراد
Author
Source
Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities
Issue
Vol. 27, Issue 5 (31 May. 2020), pp.89-105, 17 p.
Publisher
Tikril University College of Education for Humanizes
Publication Date
2020-05-31
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
17
Main Subjects
Educational Sciences
Languages & Comparative Literature
Topics
- Learning
- Basic education
- Social networking Web sites
- Qualitative analysis
- Communication
- Internet
- Social media
- Linguistics
- English language
- Skills
- Language arts
- Performance
- Reading skills
Abstract EN
Advances in technology have resulted in increasing the number of internet users among students.
They use social Medias for several purposes.
The Internet as a means of advanced technology has had an enormous influence on the English language in less than two decades changing it to a considerable extent.
The crucial purpose for this is the effectiveness of the internet communication and easy accessibility of the world wide net.
Nowadays, one of the key questions is with social Media commerce and its impact on students' language proficiency.
Many researches have been implemented to find out how it impacts students' language and in most of the cases encouraging results are greater than negative ones.
Thus, this study addressed the effects of social media on Kurdish students' English language competence, whether it touches their language knowledge in a negative or positive way.
This study is implemented by conducting quantitative and qualitative research with bachelor degree students studying at Salahaddin University, Colleges of Education, Basic Education and Languages.
Close-ended questionnaire and an interview are availed for adopting the study.
This study focuses on grammar, vocabulary, and four key language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
It comes to the conclusion that a considerably positive consequence is the role of social media in improving student language skills.
From the students' reports, it can be concluded that although writing (spelling particularly) has not improved to some extent, other language skills show significant enhancement in terms of listening, speaking skills and vocabulary enrichment with grammar point.
Moreover, regarding reading skills, a mainly significant finding is the efficiency of practicing scanning skill while students read any text from the net.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Abd Allah, Zhin Hamad Amin. 2020. The impacts of social media on Kurdish EFL students' English language proficiency. Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities،Vol. 27, no. 5, pp.89-105.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1266204
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Abd Allah, Zhin Hamad Amin. The impacts of social media on Kurdish EFL students' English language proficiency. Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities Vol. 27, no. 5 (May. 2020), pp.89-105.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1266204
American Medical Association (AMA)
Abd Allah, Zhin Hamad Amin. The impacts of social media on Kurdish EFL students' English language proficiency. Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities. 2020. Vol. 27, no. 5, pp.89-105.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1266204
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
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Record ID
BIM-1266204