Share Paper: Tweet it and Acquire it (Critical Review)

  1. Musa Alghamdi, Yanbu Industrial College, United Kingdom
Thursday, April 16 3:40 PM-4:00 PM S2

Abstract: In this critical review, the literature has been investigated in three main domains. First, the role of technology in the field of second language education domain was thoroughly investigated. In a further, more in-depth step, the researcher studied the participation of social media or Web 2.0 and more specifically Twitter in second language learning. The paper then focuses on the role of social media in the context of the current study (Saudi Arabia). In the last phase, and because this study will investigate the efficacy of Twitter on vocabulary acquisition, the researcher took into consideration the literature which relates to ...