Browsing Grau en Estudis Anglesos by Keyword "social media"
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A corpus-based study on social media english lexicon: comprenhensibility in ESL and EFL students
Universitat Jaume I (2017)The current status of English as ‘lingua franca’ acquired throughout the last two centuries, as well as the development and rise of Internet and social media have originated the emergence of a new kind of language with ... -
Show’em the Ropes: The Importance of Teaching ‘Slang’ in EFL Settings
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-06)Slang has made its way into our everyday language and nowadays even dictionaries add words like Google, emoji and selfie. Slang language determines the way one community of speakers adapts to linguistic arising needs. ... -
Too Cool for the School: EFL Learners’ Perception of SNS as Good Slang-Learning Spaces and their Views on English-Language Slang Inclusion in Instructed Contexts
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-25)This study investigated the out-of-school contact with slang in Social Networking Sites (SNS) and the need for teaching English-language slang in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instructional settings. In order to ...