Social media language learning

Technology & Language Learning, Dr. Abdel-Fattah Adel 7:51 PM
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• Social Media consist of interactive forms of
media that allow users to interact with and
publish to each other, generally by means of
the internet.
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• Social Media Language Learning (SMLL)
links interactive social media channels to
language learning.
• This enables students to develop
communication and language skills.
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• Social media provides the learner with the
possibility of participating in actual, real-time,
relevant conversations taking place online,
and practicing the target language with or
without the help of an experienced teacher by
his or her side.
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• The Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
method provided the basis for the
development of the SMLL method, given both
emphasize the importance of teaching within
a great scope of contexts with the objective of
developing a functional knowledge of the
language.
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• Perfect grammar and pronunciation are not
essential to the process, rather setting the
focus on the communicative competence of
the student and the ability to understand and
make him/herself understood.
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1. Importance of live and actual communication in the
target language through interaction and updated
content comprehension and production based on
Social Media channels.
2. Students’ personal experience and interests play a
defining role in learning, enabling relevant usage of
language during and between classes with active
participation of teacher and virtual community.
3. Fostering of social media communication skills at the
same time as the language learning is taking place, in
terms of editing, strategy, conceptualization, business
insight, etc.
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• Web Logs or blogs are one of many forms of
social media.
• A blog is an online platform that people can
use to express issues related to their lives and
different viewpoints they may have.
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• Blogs can be used for language learning. The
ability to comment on other peoples blogs as
well as have people post comments on your
own is key to blogging.
• The development of a language is not
normally the primary goal of the person who
is participating in a blog but a blog is a place
that can provide a foundation for reflecting on
the language that is being written within it.
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• Blogs can increase a users language
competence as well “blogs are egalitarian
learning and teaching tools par excellence”.
• When writing in a blog it is done to express
feelings and to be creative but as a result
language learning can be achieved.
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• Many MMO (massively multiplayer online) games
cross national and linguistic boundaries.
• They often have built in chat functions and
enable participants to chat with players from all
over the world who speak various languages. This
can provide players with the opportunity to learn
a new language—at least at a basic level—so they
can participant more fully in the game with the
other players.
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• The social interaction these players engage in
while playing the game helps with their
understanding of the grammar constructions
and conversational ways of the language they
are using.
• Games transform the learning process from a
passive task to one in which individuals
engage actively in the experience of learning
by focussing first on meaning.
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• Forms of social networking in electronic media
have provided alternative contexts of
language development
• Practices of English in the global sphere
articulate with local practices of English in
constituting the identities and life trajectories
of people.
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• Online interests groups influence language
learning.
• Participating in Internet interest communities has
the potential to propel language learners beyond
the confines of the institutional identity.
Participation in these semiotically mediated
communities may help to strengthen the
ecological linkages between forms of language
use and identity dispositions.
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• A number of social networking sites help
individuals engage in language learning and
interest.
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• In the past few years, a series of language
learning social networks have popped up, and
they make learning more fun, efficient,
interactive and interesting than usual. The
average language student can now turn an
arduous task like studying into something
enjoyable by meeting and interacting with native
language speakers from around the world
through these language education social
networks. Here are 7 truly impressive social
networks for you to use if you’re trying to learn a
new language.
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• Livemocha is a social networking site in which
allows members to communicate and learn
language skills. According to the site, it has
approximately 12 million registered members
from 196 countries around the globe. Over
400,000 users visit the site daily.
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• LiveMocha.com is a complete social network at
its core. The site boasts over 6 million users and
was named as one of Time magazine’s top 50
websites of 2010. In a Facebook like fashion, your
personal profile appears with your picture and
your friends list. You build your own profile and
indicate which languages you want to learn and
which languages you already know. Live chat is
available with anyone that is online and people
use the chat to practice their language of choice.
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• Earning points gives a huge incentive for learning as well.
Users can earn Mocha points by being engaged in the site
and completing coursework. You can earn Teacher points
by helping other members with submission reviews,
flashcards, and translations. If you earn enough teacher
points, you can also earn free coarse sessions. After 5
minutes of being on this site, I already received a few chat
requests from Farsi, Hindi, Arabic, Swedish, and Spanish
speakers as well as requests to correct people’s English
grammar that they sent me in audio and written form. I
have to say that it’s quite rewarding to do such a simple
task as correcting an English sentence and know that you
helped someone out.
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• Bussuu is a language community that functions like a
cool interactive game. It offers free interactive lessons,
exams, text and video chat, writing exercises, reading
comprehension tests and many other features. Users
can write text in a foreign language such as Spanish
and submit it to have a native Spanish speaker in the
network correct their writing. Most of the features on
the site are free though paid upgrades are available for
features like audio samples, PDFs and Podcasts. Busuu
must be doing something very right since they were
selected as the Red Herring 100 European Winner of
2010!
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• Italki.com, pronounced I-talk-I, offers an
enormous community of speakers of over 100
languages from over 200 countries. You can
connect with new friends and language partners
that speak the language you want to learn, find a
language teacher, use the questions and answers
section, and access a variety of other features to
learn your desired language. In addition to being
a social network, there really is an impressive
body of resources to be found in this site.
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• Palabea offers community based language
learning with virtual classrooms. Users can find
friends and interact with them by audio or video
conferencing, receive video and podcast lessons
by accredited institutions, record their own
lessons and upload videos to the site, and use
translation tools powered by Babylon. The user
interface of this site resembles a fun game like
environment and offers very intuitive features for
chatting and finding new friends.
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• Lang 8 offers language students the ability to
connect with native language speakers from 180
different countries. Its focus is on writing
correction wherein people can submit their
writing to be corrected by other native language
speakers and learn using this method. This is
extremely helpful for people wanting to write
term papers for school or companies needing to
translate their text in a reliable way.
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• This site is another social network that connects
people for the purpose of learning a new
language. The site will match you up with a
particular language speaker that also wants to
learn the language that you speak and you can
chat with each other to practice speaking ,
writing, or ask questions. In addition, there are
many videos compiled in the videos section of
the site and an active forum split up into different
language categories.
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• My Happy Planet offers a great way to find
new friends across the globe to chat with.
When I entered that I am an English speaker
looking to learn Spanish, the site responded
with 39370 Spanish speaking members that I
can add as a friend or chat with. There are
also many video lessons to choose from and
many written lessons that other members
have posted. There seems to be a very active
and vibrant community here.
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• Facebook allows language barriers to be broken
down. According to the Social Networking in
Education Wiki Facebook allows users to choose a
"primary display language" for their
account. Even though the Facebook user can view
information in his or her native language, their
friends may write their profile information in
another language, so the user may have to rely
on other methods in order to understand the
information presented in their friends' profiles.
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• If you’re thinking of learning a new
language Twitter is the perfect place to start. It
might be an unusual concept, but it really
shouldn’t be. There are loads of ways the world’s
most popular micro blogging platform can help
you master a new language, as this article will
show you.
• There are loads of linguistic specialists to follow
on Twitter ranging from professional services to
amateur language bloggers.
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• Conversational writing
• Connect students beyond class
• Unique & practical communication
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• Microblogging – blog posts the size of
an SMS message
• Conversation tool
• Web and mobile access
• Frequent updates
– What am I doing?
– What am I thinking?
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I. Following conversations
II. Folllowing people
III. Twittering in a community
IV. Twitterature
V. Twitter conversations in class
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• To get started, search within YouTube for your language of
choice. Sift through the vast pool of available tutorials.
Once you weed out the less helpful ones, you'll see there
are plenty of educational channels dedicated to specific
languages. (Check out the gallery below for some of the
best channels and videos for language learning.)
• The best practice for learning a language is to repeat
popular words and phrases. But make sure to repeat out
loud, not in your head — it's the only way to practice
pronunciation and accent nuances. Most of the videos even
pause and wait for you to repeat the phrase. And you can
always rewind to work on troublesome words and phrases.
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