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INTRODUCTION
The generation nowadays is indeed greatly influenced by computers and
technologies, from child to teen agers to adults to even of old ages and at a very early
stage, even toddlers. All of us are greatly influenced by the developing technologies and
from technologies, people learned to invent new ways to use this to communicate and
to keep in touch with others. One of these brilliant ideas is social media. Social media is
a way of interacting, creating, sharing or exchanging information through virtual
communities and network. There are many effects that stem from internet usage.
According to Nielsen, internet users continue to spend more time with social
media sites than any other type of site. (Shi, Zhan; Rui, Huaxia; Whinston, Andrew B.
(forthcoming). "Content Sharing in a Social Broadcasting Environment: Evidence
from Twitter". MIS Quarterly.) As Shi, Zhan; Rui, Huaxia; Whinston, Andrew In their
study states that Social media technologies take on many different forms including
magazines, Internet
include
blogging,
picture-sharing, blogs,
wall-posting,
music-
sharing, crowdsourcing and voice over IP, to name a few." By applying a set of theories
in the field of media research (social presence, media richness) and social processes
(self-presentation, self-disclosure), Kaplan and Haenlein created a classification
scheme in their Business Horizons (2010) article, with six different types of social media
namely collaborative projects (for example, Wikipedia), blogs and microblogs (for
example, Twitter), content communities (for example, YouTube and DailyMotion), social
networking sites (for example, Facebook), virtual game-worlds (e.g., World of Warcraft),
virtual social worlds (e.g. Second Life). (Kaplan, A. M., & Haenlein, M. (2010). Users
of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media. Business
horizons, 53(1), 59-68.) Having social media in the classroom has been a controversial
topic for the last several years. Many parents and educators have been fearful of the
repercussions of having social media in the classroom. (Kist,W. (2012). Class get
ready to tweet: Social media in the classroom. Our children. Retrieved
from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ991339.pdf) As result, cell phones have been
banned from classroom and schools have blocked many popular social media websites.
However, despite adults apprehensions, students are (or will be) using social media.
Because of its easy access, students spend more time facing their computers,
cellphones and tablets using social media and getting more addicted to it. Previous
studies have stated that social networks has a significant influence in the academic
performance of students. ( Saba Mehmood & Tarang Taswir, 2013 pp. 112)
Malissa (2014) stated that The advent of Web 2.0 technologies has altered the
pedagogical approaches employed by the educators and it has created an avenue for a
collaborative and hybrid learning environments. Educators have joined the bandwagon
and utilized the social networking sites (SNS) to draw interest among the current
generations, often described as Net Genres and one of the popular trends nowadays is
the Internet memes that is rapidly gaining popularity through websites like 9gag,
Facebook and Twitter. However, the prevalence of social media may lead to the
potential of language deterioration and positive attributions towards social media may
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
SOCIAL MEDIA
(Facebook, Twitter,
memes, photos,
web blogging, etc.)
VOCABULARY
VOCABULARY
ACQUISITION
- Internet-based
tools can facilitate communication, interaction, and collaborative learning in ways that were not
possible before (The Node, 2001).
- Furthermore, as technology is now an inevitable component of the 21st century
society, there is a critical need for educators to use it with students as a cognitive tool
for creating the knowledge workers who can think critically, analyse and synthesis
information to solve problems in a variety of contexts and work effectively. As a
result, integration of technology is a societal necessity that may no longer be able to be ignored due
to its potential to impact education.
This study attempts to investigate the opinions and views of selected students and
teachers on the influence of social media in vocabulary acquisition in the Pamantasan
ng Lungsod ng Valenzuela. It aims to answer the following questions:
1. Is social media beneficial in acquiring the right vocabulary the learners need?
3. Since student use social media more often, how does this reflect their
language in terms of their vocabulary?
Students nowadays are quite addicted to social media, this study will find out the
opinions of the teachers and the students themselves on what can social media do to
their vocabulary acquisition, whether it positively or negatively affects the acquisition of
a student. Since students in PLV implements the integration of technology in teaching
such as using computers, laptops, projectors and more, one of the ways of the teacher
in communicating, giving tasks and instructions to the students is through the use of
social media like posting their activities and reports in Facebook and letting them watch
helpful videos for their study in YouTube. But the hours spent in using social media
mostly are not used in academic purposes. Students sometimes, or most of the times
surf for memes, posts, tweets, videos and many more. Social media displays a wide
usage of the secondary language which is English, and since this is the case, it plays a
big role in influencing students vocabulary, consciously or unconsciously. This study
will help and contribute ideas on how social media influence vocabulary acquisition.
Further researchers can study about the integration of social media in learning the
English language. This study may lead to discoveries of solutions or new ways of
developing or improving the students vocabulary performance in the midst of the social
medias influence.