SOCIAL MEDIA: A CATALYST FOR ENGLISH COMMUNICATION IN ESL CONTEXTS

Abstract

Social media become an integral part of every learners’ life. It facilitates the diverse information and own pace accessibility. It has been studied by many researchers and proved that, learners’ life and academic skills enhanced significantly through social media. In recent years, there has been a growing recognition and vital links between social media and English communication skills. With the help of social media, learners’ can acquire their English communication in the form of aural, oral and kinaesthetic. This paper aims to review and investigate articles based on the following objectives. First to explore the relationship between social media and English communication skills. Second to analyze various studies pertaining to the utilization of social media and English communication skills among ESL learners. Finally, how the studies made the significant difference among ESL learner and their English communication skills. Results are corroborated with previous studies and revealed that, there is a correlation between social media and English communication skills among ESL learners.