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Report on Use of English on Social Networking Sites

   

Added on  2020-04-07

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Running head: USE OF ENGLISH ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITESUse of English on Social Networking Sites Student NameCourse Name and NumberProfessor NameInstitutionPaper Due DatePage | 1

Use of English on Social Networking SitesFindingsGeneral Information In order to analyse the research subject, the questionnaire survey has been taken with400 respondents. Among the 400 respondents, about 66.8% are female. Besides, majority ofthe respondents (284 out of 400) are belonging to age group of 18 to 21 years. About 103respondents fall within age group of 22 to 25 years. Concerning academic year, majority ofthe respondents (144 out of 400) have completed first year. About 94 respondents havecompleted the second year. The number of respondents who are in first year and fourth yearare 67 and 70 respectively. With respect to the major taken by the respondents, it can beobserved that 228 have science major and the rest 172 respondents has human as major in thecollege. Social Networking In order to understand about the social networking activities of respondents, they areasked about the primary method of using internet. From the findings it can be observed thatabout 87.5% of respondents use smartphone to access internet. Only 10.8% and 1.8% havefound to use laptop and PCs for accessing internet, indicating the prevalence of smartphoneusage among the college students.For understanding the popularity of social networking, the respondents are askedabout the mots used social networking sites. Expectedly Facebook has obtained highestranking where 75% of respondents have found to use this site. Apart from WhatsApp andSnap Chat is also used by considerable number of respondents (70% and 55% respectively).About 50% respondents have found to use Instagram. This signifies that Facebook is the mostinfluencing social media for the purpose of communication and hence learning Englishlanguage.Page | 2

Use of English on Social Networking SitesMost of the respondents (about 37%) have also mentioned that they spend about twoto four hours on social networking sites every day. Besides, 22% and 21% respondents havestated that they spend about five to six hours and more than six hours respectively in thesocial networking sites. This indicates that social networking sites play vital part to learn anduse English language as considerable amount of time is spent on them. Female respondentshave found to use the social networking sites more in comparison with the male. Thisindicates that social networking sites have more influence on language capability of femalethan male. From the findings, it can be observed that majority of respondents (265 out of 400)are using social networking sites for more than three years. About 97 respondents have foundto use the social networking sites for one to three years. This indicate that the respondentshave become habituated for using social networking for so long and therefore socialnetworking has become a part of regular routine for them for communication.English Usage on Social Networking Sites With respect to the use of languages on social networking sites, 74% of respondentsmentioned that they use both English and Arabic. Since, social networking is used by peoplethroughout the world and English is the most prevalent language among most of the worldpeople and also accepted worldwide, the respondents are bound to use English apart fromtheir native language. Only 15% have found to use only Arabic language in socialnetworking. Besides, it can also be observed that the use of English in social networking sitesis higher among the female (267 out of 400) than male (133 out of 400). In order to understand to what extent English is used for communication orcommenting or interacting in English in social networking, series of question has been askedto the respondents. On the basis of findings, it can be observed that the mean value is morePage | 3

Use of English on Social Networking Sitesthan 3 for respondents who communicate with English speakers. This signifies the fact thatsocial media gives opportunity for the respondents to study the speaking style of nativespeakers and therefore can learn from them. The mean value of respondents who read newsand other information in English is observed as 4.04. This indicates that social media givesthe opportunity to understand the reporting style and use of language used in various onlinenews articles. This is huge benefit for the students to learn more about how to write inEnglish. The mean value of respondents who comment on posts in English is observed as3.94. Thus, it also indicates that through social media they can fearlessly express theirviewpoints on any issue in English language. This can generate confidence among them touse English for communication. Furthermore, the mean value of respondents who communicate with companies andbusiness in English is observed as 3.81. This signifies that organisations can also interact withthe people through English and social media gives the respondents to understand more aboutformal and official communication pattern and use of language in professional environment.To a large extent respondents agreed to use English in social media website, specifically inFacebook and WhatsApp. The value of σ is observed as more than 0.80 for each variable,which indicate that there is much difference between the reactions of respondents. Integration of Social Media in Classroom The next question was asked in order to understand how and in what context tertiaryEFL students in Jordan use English and social networking. The mean value of the analysis isobserved as more than 4 which indicate that majority of respondents have agreed behaviouron the statements. In this context, most of the respondents (μ = 4.40) have stated thatFacebook and WhatsApp have made it simpler to access the instructional materials in theinternet. This indicates that social media can be utilised by the teachers in contemporaryPage | 4

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