Saturday, October 4, 2014

Disadvantages of Social Network in "English Language Learning"

Disadvantages of Social Network in English Language Learning:

     Beside advantages of social network in education, there are also some disadvantages of social networking in language learning. Many researchers has conducted research on this matter and many of them conclude that social networking can be subjected to crime especially to the youth or students. Because social networking offers the users to communicate each other without any boundries that will be used by the bad people to to do crime to the others.

     Networking websites can make people or especially students become very addictive. People spend more and more time at computer with makes them isolated from real life. In the term of language proficiency, many young people write uncomplete or slank english words which are not found in English dictionary. Some of the use abbreviation which sometime confusing to the others. Such as they use ‘text language’ in their normal day to day vocab, saying things like ‘lol’ (laugh out loud), ‘btw’ (by the way) and ‘atm’ (at the moment).

     So the conclusion, there are some advantages and disadvantages of using social networking in education including in English language learning. It can encourage students to engage with each other and to express and share their creativity and can create a better English communicative environment for students. The other hand, social networking is lack of humanitarian aspects and create confusing language because using slank words or abbreviation which are not found in English dictionary.

(AINAL MAISARAH BT AHMAD MUSTAFFA GOH
 PTM140717147)



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