SNS- Social Networking Sites (CMC II)

Twitter is one example of a social networking site. Last week, we've learned how to "tweet" but honestly i didn't find it interesting at all so during the class I wasn't able to follow the instructions very well and until now...I think I'm not tweeting well. After browsing the reading assignment on SNS, I realized that thing thing...the tweeting thing, could actually be a helpful tool for FL students. Most (or maybe some?) of the reasons why this tool can be helpful came from the personal needs of the learners such as wanting to socialize, being able to show their identity and receive reactions from friends or visitors of their site, etc. And now, there is what we call neomillennial FL students who are involved in studying language through internet-mediation rather than face to face interaction. Hmmm...this is just an intro to SNS^^. According to the study on twittering as a language tool for L2 learners, they said that students were very much thrilled on tweeting and just keeps on tweeting because they became more expressive and wrote longer tweets also they were more willing to talk about things. One thing that I found most interesting in here was the suggested projects that would require comunicative activities unique to the SNS genre and I think I shall be using some for my DECALL project (e.g. beginner profiles and posting photos).^^