A review of the effects of media on foreign language vocabulary acquisition
Keywords:
Media, EFL, ESL, Social media, VocabularyAbstract
The current review article is accomplished to evaluate the effectiveness of a variety of social media in learning a foreign language vocabulary among learners. Another objective is to give some suggestions for using social media in teaching vocabulary based on its influence on students' performance and teachers' and students' perspectives about this method of teaching and learning. The root of the article included several main features such as the authors, the aims, the participants, and the results or the implications of the study. Through the review article, it is clear that social media is one of the most efficient means to promote vocabulary learning among EFL and ESL learners since it involves several benefits that are demonstrated in the following articles.
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