Social Media and Its Impact on Students’ Writing Skills

  • Authors

    • Harwati Hashim
    • Melor Md Yunus
    • Nur Shazana M. Ibrahim
    • Ivy Elmira Jeri
    • Muhammad Afifie Mohamad Sukr
    • Noor Syahirah Nazor Ilahi
    • Muhammad Afif Nor Hassim
    2018-11-26
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.21.21624
  • 21st century learning, ESL learning, impacts, Social media, writing skills.

  • Nowadays, social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp are very popular among the young generations and they are easily influenced by these technologies. However, there are negative influences of using social media towards the language acquisition of the young generations.  The aim of this paper is to identify positive and negative impacts of social media on students writing skills.  To achieve the aim of the study, primary research was conducted using questionnaires which were distributed among 88 secondary school students at an academy in a state in Malaysia. The questionnaires were used to collect quantitative. Data were then analysed and reported in tables using frequencies and percentages.   The findings showed that there the students’ writing skills was impacted by the use of social media.

     

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    Hashim, H., Md Yunus, M., Shazana M. Ibrahim, N., Elmira Jeri, I., Afifie Mohamad Sukr, M., Syahirah Nazor Ilahi, N., & Afif Nor Hassim, M. (2018). Social Media and Its Impact on Students’ Writing Skills. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.21), 102-106. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.21.21624