The Role of social media in Lexical Learning of EFL Learners
Keywords:
social media, Lexemes, Lexical Learning, EFL Learners, Naturalistic Learning Environment, Learners' Attitude.Abstract
This paper aims to investigate the role of social media in learning lexical
knowledge of EFL learners on the part of vocabulary acquisition. This study
is conducted to seek the influential part of social media‟s life and check the
beneficial impact on youth lexical learning. Social media is very important
feature in collaboration of facilitating learning vocabulary knowledge in dayto-day life. Lecturers and undergraduate students from various departments
of University of Balochistan, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's university,
Balochistan University of information Technology, Engineering and
Management Science University in Quetta were identified as the participants
of this study. The instrument of this study is Likert Scale questionnaire which
is constructed to explore the students' attitude and perception towards
English language learning. The main objective of this study is to explore the
impact of social media on youth lexical awareness. Lexical learning is the
central part of L2 learning because the meaning of new words is not
emphasized in classroom or textbooks.
This study is conducted to analyze the role of social media and to evaluate the
impact of lexical learning skills cognitively on students and to envision that
lexical learning is easily accessible through social media. The present
research has been done to emphasize the influential role of Internet with the
help of literature reviews. This research indicates that vocabulary learning
may be practiced easily through interpersonal communication which has
turned into a marvel.
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