The Use of Social Media in Learning English Writing

Abstract

As technology grows rapidly, social media has become one inseparable element of the daily life of modern society. Its impacts have spread into every aspect of human life, including education. The use of social media in teaching and learning activities has brought a new contribution to education, especially in language learning. Using social media, people from different countries can find it easier to communicate with each other to exchange or learn languages together, such as English. As a global language, English has four skills to be mastered to get to the proficiency level. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Among all the four skills, writing is considered to be the most complex one. As social media has brought much easiness and is very simple to use, utilizing social media to help the learning writing is considered to be helpful to help improve the effectiveness. Therefore, this article tried to uncover the use of social media in learning English writing.