module four language learning resources
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SOCIAL M
EDIA IN
LEARNIN
G AND
TEACHIN
G ENGLIS
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SOCIAL MEDIA IN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING
Social media are great teaching tools in our currently life, but how can we use it in a
language classroom?
learners love everything related to technology and internet, so that new technology is
highly motivator, which we as teachers can take advantages of.
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WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?
Social media is best understood as a group of new kinds of online media, which share most or all of the following characteristics:
• Participation
• Open
• Conversation
• Community
• Connective
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TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA• SOCIAL NETWORKS:
MySpace
Hotmail
• BLOGS :Blogger. • WIKIS :Wikipedia. • PODCAST: Apple iTunes.
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ADVANTAGES OF USING INTERNET TOOLS OR SOCIAL MEDIA
• Freedom of speech
• Share knowledge with other people
• Make friends online
• Can be used as a diary
• Can be used as a portfolio, adding new work per day or per week.
• Independent of time or place
• It’s not necessary to be an expert on using computers, this is easy to use.
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• Students are able to develop communication skills within class using the computer.
• It is a flexible tool which can be used for a wide variety of applications.
• Free of time, place or distance. Possible to create a community of learners.
• Anyone can edit and it is easy to use and follow. Students can be authors, not just researchers.
• Technology works as motivator, students like internet.
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DISADVANTAGES
• Need to keep it constantly updated otherwise you lose potential readers
• Easy to start, hard to maintain• All the classroom have to count with
easy access to internet• Difficult to implement in rural
institutions.
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• Low level of confidentially.
• Students become easily distracted and use the computers for other purposes.
• Requires Internet connectivity to collaborate, but also the possibility to print.
• The information can be modified in a bad way by any user.
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REFERENCES• web20 teach.blogspot.com
• What is Social Media?: an e-book by Antony Mayfield from crossing.