Social Media Language Learning

[1] Social media provides an environment that allows users to weave their goal of language acquisition with culturally relevant interactions through a wide array of available platforms that are often categorized as formal for classroom use and informal for personal use.

Online environments used by education professionals include course management systems, wikis, blogs, virtual worlds, and more.

For Indigenous languages that are vulnerable and critically endangered, social media among other digital technologies can offer access to supportive communities, experienced educators, and other learning opportunities.

One example of an app with a low social element is the popular language learning app Duolingo, which allows users to share their progress and scores with other language learners within a largely independent learning platform.

There are many popular language education channels on YouTube that have a large number of followers that use the video-based platform to learn and interact with other users.

By participating in an interactive gaming experience, players have the opportunity to engage in the target language and help them gain an understanding of conversational norms and grammar constructions.