The Effects of Social Networking Sites in the Second Language Development of the High School Students

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The Internet is now the most powerful and vital technology affecting digital communication because of the never-ending growth of domains, hosts, sites, and networks. It has connected the netizens, expanded the global perspectives, created massive available resources, promoted more collaborative works, and improved people's lifestyles.

The English language is perpetually changing to accommodate developments. In the past several years, its evolution becomes uncontrollable because of the Internet and other technologies. Now, the development of the English language is accelerating at an extraordinary rate, and dictionary publishers are struggling to strike the right balance between significance and reliability.

Social networking sites have become a steering force behind the new words that surfaced in the English vocabulary. The majority of the words, terminologies, and acronyms that are being submitted for the inclusion in dictionaries are either several facets of social media or words that have attained widespread recognition because of the creative use of social networking sites.

METHODS

This study used survey-questionnaire as an instrument. The researchers tallied the data gathered and tabulated in its frequency and weighted mean table.

RESULTS

The best positive effects of social networking sites on the second language development of high school students are that it can develop their communication and language skills. It can help in the learning of new words, meanings, vocabularies. On the contrary, the respondents consider the conciseness of writing as the least positive effect of social networking sites.

The relating negative effects of social networking sites to the second language development of the high school students is the negligence of word agreement. The respondents also considered the usage of slang, abbreviations, word or language combinations, and emoticons as one of the minor negative effects of using social networking sites. On the other way, usage of poor grammar has the least negative effect of social networking sites in the second language development of high school students.

DISCUSSIONS

It is essential that they can give more attention to language development and learning of the learners. It is also helpful if they will give proper guidance to their students and teach them to realize that the formal way of forming words and communication are better than the informal way.