The effectiveness of social media network telegram in teaching English language pronunciation to Iranian EFL learners

Ismail Xodabande,Maria Popescu

doi:10.1080/2331186x.2017.1347081

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AbstractIn recent years, the expansion of digital technologies, multimedia, and social networks, dramatically transformed our lives. Education in general and the area of foreign language teaching and learning have also benefited hugely from those developments and advances. As a result, the face of language learning is changing and new technologies provide language learners and teachers with tools and opportunities unimaginable before. Current study examined the effectiveness of using social media network Telegram® in teaching English language pronunciation to Iranian EFL learners. Participants of this study included 30 Iranian EFL learners (in two experimental (N = 14) and control (N = 16) groups) who received different treatments over the four weeks. The results of pre-test and post-test revealed that the pronunciation of participants in experimental group improved significantly compared to control group but we found no significant improvement in pronunciation of participants in experimental group from p...

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In twenty-first century, the expansion and availability of digital technologies, multimedia and social media networks, have transformed our lives dramatically and “our cumulative experience with Ismail Xodabande ABOUT THE AUTHORIsmail Xodabande is an MA holder of TEFL from Guilan University, currently teaching English as a foreign language in Tehran
The main goal of current study was to examine the possibility of teaching correct pronunciation of some commonly mispronounced English words by foreign language learners using a locally popular social media network
Pronunciation is the most difficult aspect of language teaching and learning which plays a vital role in successful communication both productively and receptively (Setter & Jenkins, 2005)

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In twenty-first century, the expansion and availability of digital technologies, multimedia and social media networks, have transformed our lives dramatically and “our cumulative experience with Ismail Xodabande ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Ismail Xodabande is an MA holder of TEFL from Guilan University, currently teaching English as a foreign language in Tehran. He is interested in doing research on L2 learning motivation, materials development for language teaching, and digital technologies in language learning and teaching. The main goal of current study was to examine the possibility of teaching correct pronunciation of some commonly mispronounced English words by foreign language learners using a locally popular social media network. Two groups of learners participated in the study, receiving different materials over the four weeks. The paper discusses some benefits of using social media for teaching pronunciation

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