VIEWS OF ENGLISH LEARNERS’ REGARDING THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING

Abstract

In this present technological age young university level learners have access to various social media tools like Facebook; Twitter, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and Flicker etc. This is the time of social media use and social awareness therefore; the present study was conducted to find out the views of young university level learners regarding the use of social media for English language learning. Major objectives of this study were: To highlight the views of English language learners regarding the use of social media for English language learning at university level. To find out the difference between the views of male and female learners regarding the use of social media for English language learning, and similarly, to find out the significant difference among the views male female English learners between the students of social sciences and pure sciences at university in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In order to fulfill this study the researcher taken a sample of 200 university level English learners; 100 students from social sciences (50 male and 50 female) and 100 students from pure sciences (50 male and 50 female) in university of science & Technology Bannu. Self-developed questionnaire was used as an instrument for the collection of data and the collected data was statistically analyzed through SPSS version 20.