Introducing Social Media to Help Students Develop their Vocabulary in the Foreign Language Classroom

Résumé

Mastering a foreign language goes automatically through the mastery of its
vocabulary. Having a rich repertoire of lexical items of the foreign language
should be the priority of any teacher. Furthermore, teaching and learning
vocabulary can be very challenging and may be a time consuming process for
both teachers and students. Thus, students need to be oriented towards different
strategies and approaches in order to improve their vocabulary. We hypothesize
in the current paper that Social Mediacan represent a rich source for improving
the learners’ vocabulary. To test our hypothesis and to achieve the research
aims two questionnaires were administered for both teachers and students at the
English department, Batna 2 University. We found out that using Social
Mediais an effective pedagogical technique to develop students’ vocabulary.
Consequently, teachers need to adapt the Social Mediato the educational setting
in such a way as to help students develop their vocabulary store in a relaxing
and entertaining atmosphere