Social media can be effectively used as tools for language teaching and learning. They are highly motivating for learners who enjoy new technologies. Some common social media that can be used include social networks like Facebook, blogs, wikis, and podcasts. The advantages of using social media include freedom of expression, sharing knowledge, developing communication skills, flexibility, and motivating students who enjoy the internet. However, maintaining social media sites can be difficult and require constant updates. Not all classrooms may have reliable internet access.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
• SOCIAL NETWORKS:
MySpace
Hotmail
Facebook
• BLOGS :Blogger.
• WIKIS :Wikipedia.
• PODCAST: Apple iTunes.

9. 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.

10. • 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.

11. 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.

12. • 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.

13. REFERENCES
• web20 teach.blogspot.com
• What is Social Media?: an e-book by Antony Mayfield from
crossing.