2. Twitter: one of the most
popular social networking services
-communicate with people
-a tool to study.
How:
1.Twitter can help language
students improve their skills
2. to make many
connections with other learners-
~very easy to keep up with the everyday
conversation.
3. In Japan:
1. many Japanese users
use Twitter to improve their English
2. Twitter as a tool to practice
English
4. 1. Examine and analyze how
Japanese EFL learners use Twitter to study
English.
2. It will be focused on the
format of tweets, content of tweets, and the
tweeting behavior
5. 1. English Education in Japan
- Compulsory for all students from middle
school
- Not many Japanese can actually communicate
in English
-lecture style class
-one-sided communication style in classrooms
-input > output
6. 1. Meijin Era – English education was
started.( read & write)
2. 1989-oral communication lesson
English language syllabus in
senior high schools
3.1997- official slogan:
“globalization, cultural difference,
international understanding”
2002- English is a just a subject for university
7. Japanese students:
- lose their interests toward studying as they get older
- University students- in traveling and communication
with people from English speaking countries
-not strong desire to learn English
External influence :
Chinese students:
-English as a tool to get a job and a high
salary
-more motivated to study English than Japanese
students
8. Boyd and Ellison
(2007) suggested that there are mainly three
key functions of SNS:
1. they allow individuals to
1) Construct a public or semi-public profile
within a bounded system
2) they share a connection
3) View and traverse their list of connections
and those made by others within
the system”
9. -social networking systems create
new opportunities for teaching
and learning.
- They are participatory,
authentic, immediate,
to engage the community
10. 1. a free online service
2. within 140 letters
3. share with people all over the world.
4. As a tool to practice English- to improve
language sills, with reading native speakers’
English’s tweets
5. To get not only language and linguistic skills
but also improve cross-cultural
understanding
11. Students can develop cultural awareness
through communication with native speakers.
By Nakashima(2011)- students are allowed to
ask to use twitter and post anything in
English : it affect students’ grades –
English everyday use and conducting a
monologue in English has possibilities to help
them improve their English.
12. 1. the system
of Twitter is close to that of the brain
2. The users are connected
with lots of people makes users motivated.
- Having a connection with native speakers of
English
3. 140 letters makes it easier for users to read
other users’ tweets or post a tweet themselves
13. 4. Visual medium –
-to look back to what they have written
-the user notices how much he/she has
improved
“Twitter で英語をつぶや
いてみる” , the author Mayumi Ishihara
suggests learners to use the hash tag
Twitter as a Tool for Language Learning
14. It means that tweeting in English.
Using this hash tag, users with the same
intention or goals are able to meet and have a chat
in English.
Affective emotion
to find a place to actually use English in
daily life.
it does not need to be long, and that lessens the
obstacles such as the fear of making grammar
errors or not having enough time to spend
writing a blog
or a diary every day.
15. In this book, there are mainly six different
categories to tweet,
which are,
1) Greetings
2) Thanks and Sorry
3) Feelings and Intention
4) My day,
5) Questions and Suggestions
6) Things around me.
16. It points out that the greatest benefit of using Twitter is
that it’s free and that learners are able to connect with
native speakers and even maybe an EFL teacher.
. It suggests ways to interact, such as 1) to favor, 2)
laugh, 3)to be happy, 4)be surprised, 5) admire, 6)
praise, 7) agree, 8) envy, 9) thank, 10)negative
comment, 11) retweet with comments, and 12)
comment after seeing a picture or watching a clip
- Four big topics – to talk to someone
-- To tell people what you are up to
--- something you are interested in
