Social Media Exposure Improves Students’ Writing Skills in English 8
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/Keywords:
Social Media, Writing Skills, Accessibility, Analytical Thinking, Evaluation, Content CreationAbstract
Social media is a part of growing and parcel of our daily lives. As young generation have been interacting on social media on a constant basis, writing is one of the skills by means of which they interact. This research study aims to explore the potential of using social media to develop the students’ writing skills. A survey was conducted to explore the tendency of using different tenets or forms of social media by English 8 students at Buburay National High School in Dimataling 2 District. School Year 2020-2021. The instrument used in this study was descriptive method and a survey questionnaire for the Social Media Exposure of the students. A Social Media exposure was carried out to compare students’ English writing skill after discussion on Google meet or zoom to get depth information about students’ attitude towards use of social media platforms. The results of survey point out that most students use and have easy access to social media through their gadgets.
The study found that using social media for lesson discussions helps students enhance their writing skills. Moreover, using social media in writing informative essays was an easy, motivating and interesting experience to use for writing practice. Most of the students were of the view that it is a new experience of learning writing by engaging in discussion with peers and teachers through using google meet platforms. However, this study employs the descriptive method design as a means of researching the reciprocity between social media use and the students’ writing skills. The findings have indicated that students at Buburay National High School students’ social media use habits exert significant impacts on the students’ writing skills and the most these are susceptible to potential risks of the use of social media. The reported findings gave sufficient proof that social media is a convenient tool to develop better students’ writing skills. Hence, social media literacy should be integrated into the curriculum.
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