Social Media Language Learning

<p>Social media language learning is a method of language acquisition that uses socially constructed <a href="/facts/Web_2.0/mn8W4Xnu">Web 2.0</a> platforms such as wikis, blogs, and social networks to facilitate learning of the target language. Social media is used by language educators and individual learners that wish to communicate in the target language in a natural environment that allows multimodal communication, ease of sharing, and possibilities for feedback from peers and educators.
</p><p>Proponents of social media language learning are likely to support the theory of language socialization developed by <a href="/facts/Linguistic_anthropology/3aWsdbTX">linguistic anthropologists</a> <a href="/facts/Elinor_Ochs/Tdr1gV5p">Elinor Ochs</a> and <a href="/facts/Bambi_Schieffelin/rIxvAt4l">Bambi Schieffelin</a> which claims that language learning is interwoven with cultural interaction and is mediated by linguistic and other symbolic activity. Social media provides an environment that allows users to weave their goal of language acquisition with culturally relevant interactions through a wide array of available platforms that are often categorized as formal for classroom use and informal for personal use.
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Social Media Language Learning