SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN
LANGUAGE TEACHING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
(a) How social media can change English language..............................................................3
(b) Effect(s) of this “recent” language can be problematic, especially when users of new forms
are ignorant towards others....................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Over the years, social media has brought ample number of changes within society like
utilisation of English language on different social media tools (Facebook, Instagram, and so on).
English language is considered to be one of the crucial subject which has gone through various
changes like use of abbreviations like LOL (Laugh Out Loud) and TTYL (Talk To You Later).
Basically, it has been analysed that emergence of Internet led society to invent new types of both
oral and written language (Bayley and Villarreal, 2018).
Present essay will be focusing on how social media has changed both written and oral
usage of English words. Including this, essay report will also deliver the information in relation
to effects of “recent” language which can be considered as some of the crucial problems for users
that are not aware of the utilised abbreviations by the communicator and so on. Lastly, a
conclusion will be made on different findings on how social media has impacted on day to day
usage of English words while communicating.
MAIN BODY
(a) How social media can change English language.
According to Rampton and Charalambous, (2020), new era where public from all over
the world has started utilising different social media networks to communicate. Basically, it is
the platform where tweets, blogs, and Facebook posts are specifically being utilised by
individuals to communicate and in order to become eye catchy, many of the individuals has
started utilising different abbreviations and this has resulted into increase in words along with
abbreviations as well. Including this, it has been analysed that academic journalists along with
social media professionals do not keep their focus on how English has been written by public
while communicating with others. Away with this, it can be said that freedom of utilising
English words in different ways has brought ample number of trends and some of these are:
Introducing new vocabulary, Appropriating existing vocabulary, Generational language gap
and so on (Block, 2018).
Introduction of new vocabulary has already taken place in today's world, where internet is
considered to be a major element which has impacted the most on English language. Some of
these changes like before a couple of decades people were not aware of the different terms like
“fleek”, “selfie”, “YOLO”, “unfriend” and so on. But, today it can be said that these are said to