Impact of Social Media for the Improvement of Language Abilities among the Local Users

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue VI, June 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186

Impact of Social Media for the Improvement of Language Abilities among the Local Users

Sandamali. K. P. S
^1,2 Department of Economics and Statistics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka

Abstract:- With the developing technology, people have made different ways to make the things easy and effective. In this sense learning also has become very easily accessible matter for the people and they have started to do it through social media. This is reasonable to call as unknowing learning through social media since the social media make the people to learn through the using and sharing. This study has proved that using social media as an effective tool to learn English language among local users in Sri Lanka and how it benefitted in several sections to make the people aware at least about the language in speaking than the other three sections including writing, listening and reading.

Keywords: Social media, skills, language, Effects

I. INTRODUCTION

As social animals always people like to deal and connect with others to share or distribute what they and others have and interested with. For this purpose, they use languages with coding systems. However, in current society with the development of the technology different media have established within society that can connect people together. Simply these media are called social media since it works in the society. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia has defined social media as follow. “Social media are interactive computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation or sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks. The variety of stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available introduces challenges of definition; however, there are some common features”. So, this definition tells about the features of social media and how it serves to the society. There are several social media are existing in the society. Among them people use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, LinkedIn and WhatsApp as the most popular and common as social media.

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