“Impact Of Social Media In English Language Acquisition Of First Generation Students”

Abstract

The use of social media and social networks by teens and adolescents has become a new normal. The impact of social media is visible in their English language usage, as well as technical awareness. Non-native and native speakers of English speaking users have made an astonishing effect in an innovative way, which in turn made the dictionary, heavier with new words; but grammar vanished with the incorrect, abbreviated words. The findings of the research were identified with close-ended questionnaire. The study divulges that maximum students use Face book, Whatsapp Instagram, Tiktok, etc., to explore their acquaintances to other demographics, apart from their known physical social circle. In terms of grammatical/ legible the sentence format is challenging for both social media and non-social media users if there is no proper exposure. The Present generation should understand that Communicative Competence or Linguistics is a wide perspective that refers to syntax, morphology, phonology, to social knowledge of appropriate use of words, rather than speaking without grammatical convention with auto-correction and sentence-predictions’ writing has become easy but verbal interaction is still a “Million Dollar Challenge”. Students Inquisition in exploring social media and its features normally sidetrack their goals of academic activities.