The Role of Social Media Technology in English Language Learning and Change

Abstract

Technology, nowadays, has the capacity to be the source of knowledge in learning the English language. It is not just about communicating and interacting toward others but it also helps every individual to enhance their capacity in terms of learning the English language. In the context of each and everyone, there are many ways of how people may learn English language and vocabularies. It can be through reading, listening, communicating as well as in social media wherein the medium of the language is usually in English. To prove this trend, the researcher raises a study wherein the paper explains how does social media helps the individual to learn and to enhance their language in English and vocabularies. This qualitative study aims to understand in what ways does social media helps the individuals to gain knowledge and vocabularies through using it. Fifteen Grade 12 students of Saint Augustine School-Senior High School-Tanza was given a survey to answer that will help the researcher to gather information. The findings of the paper revealed that social media can be use to be the medium of learning the English language because of the random words that the users may encounter. The result shows that in social media it is not just interacting with others, sharing what we feel but it also helps the individual to enhance their vocabularies through reading while scrolling in their feeds. It is recommended that users may use social media in a good way for in one way or another they can help others to learn and sometimes Technology is a field that is continuously developing and improving. It has been used in various facets of society, most importantly, in education. The senior high school curriculum is inviting students and teachers to make use of the modern-day application in teaching learning pedagogy.