Although social media is mainly used nowadays for entertainment or to connect people together all over the world, it has been adapted to be used for educational purposes, including learning English language. This study aimed to investigate how EFL university students at Vinh university (Nghệ An province) used social media to learn English everyday and what difficulties they encountered during their learning process in these platforms. The study involved 235 non-English majored students at Vinh university. Data were collected through a questionnaire and follow-up interviews. The results reveal that YouTube and Facebook were two social media platforms that most students opted to learn English. Social media exposes the positive influences on motivations toward learning English for those who spent more time on it, and vice versa. From this findings, the major recommendations related to learning strategies are suggested for EFL students and teachers to exploit such online resources effectively.
Although social media is mainly used nowadays for entertainment or to connect people together all over the world, it has been adapted to be used for educational purposes, including learning English language. This study aimed to investigate how EFL university students at Vinh university (Nghệ An province) used social media to learn English everyday and what difficulties they encountered during their learning process in these platforms. The study involved 235 non-English majored students at Vinh university. Data were collected through a questionnaire and follow-up interviews. The results reveal that YouTube and Facebook were two social media platforms that most students opted to learn English. Social media exposes the positive influences on motivations toward learning English for those who spent more time on it, and vice versa. From this findings, the major recommendations related to learning strategies are suggested for EFL students and teachers to exploit such online resources effectively.
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