Online Social Media Applications for Language Teaching and Learning

Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. Social media can be used for business, entertainment even education. In globalization era, teachers have to be more creative and innovative. Especially in the teaching and learning process. They are demanded to make the learning process is enjoy with the interesting activity. Since the technology at this moment is highly improved, the teacher can use this technology to improve the student process of learning. Now days, many teacher used the technology to support their teaching.

In teaching and learning process, sometimes, students need to present their work. There are some useful applications that can be used to present, create and code, such as TED-Ed, Haikudeck, Duolingo, Draw and Tell, Animoto, iMovie, Instructables, Hopscotch, and Tinkercard. Moreover, for everyday classroom need, both teachers and students can use Evernote, Explain Everything, Educreations, and Oxford Dictionaries. They are have given students the opportunities to help in the process of creating TED-Ed Lessons by choosing videos and creating questions to include. Haikudeck can make students create beautiful presentations with this app. Duolingo is also beneficial for students. Duolingo revolutionized the way people learn languages. Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows. Animoto is based in New York City with an office in San Franciso.

Online applications have boomed over recent years to become a very popular tool of method of learning. There are a lot of online applications, for example Moodle, Edublogs, and Edmodo. Teachers can use them for their language teaching and learning process in the classroom. In Unnes, nowadays some lecturers prefer to use online application such as Edmodo. While we all understand the benefits of traditional classrooms, the benefits of the online learning piece are likely to be more arguable. So, there are so many applications that we can use to provide to support our teaching process. We must use it wisely to give them assignments and also to assess them.