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Week 2 - Social Media study

2/2/2013

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Completed this week
I reviewed the article: Social Media and ELT. The article explains that the brain releases dopamine when a person learns small bits of information, such as what students can find in social media. The article explains that this creates an addiction to social media. There is a video in this article where the speaker states that the instructor should ask the students which social media outlets they use and how they use it. I hadn't considered asking Spanish students this, but it might be a good idea to survey Spanish students in the Spanish department to see what social media they use now, how they use it, how often they use it, and how they feel about it being used to teach culture. This article also had some great ideas on how to use social media to teach a language. The language focus in this article was to teach English, but the same principles can be applied to Spanish.

Search ideas: social media for Spanish learner/students, social media to teach/ instructSpanish, social media for language learners/students, social media to teach/instruct languages, social media in linguistics

I also read the article: Social media, language learning tool. It descibes a major drop of interest in learning languages. It suggests several social media options and gives ideas on how to use them. I wasn't aware that Facebook had translation capability through bing. I like that the example use of social media has students use the translation and explain what went wrong in translation. It's another great idea for using social media. I was considering using most of the social media tools mentioned in this article and I'm very glad to see them mentioned. According to this article, there are few language instructors using social media.

To do next week
Find articles by using the search words I selected. Search the social media tools that I am interested in using and see if the article was correct that there are few instructors there. Put together a survey for students to see which social media tools they use, how they use them, when they use them, and how they feel about using them to learn Spanish culture. I would like to hold onto the survey until I read more articles to see what other questions I might have and the survey has been reviewed. I would also like to complete the about this study on this website.
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Alyssa Martoccio
2/4/2013 03:38:01 am

Naomi-

Great week! I am glad you were able to read a couple of articles, and I think that actually that's great- that there aren't too many instructors using social media right now- in terms of your research! A few comments: first, depending on how old the article was that you read that said there weren't too many people using social media right now, I think you can believe them and use that as a citation in your literature review for one of the reasons why you want to do this study. That is the beauty of the research- it has already been done for you! So I don't think you need to spend time looking whether the social media sites already have language teachers (and I think that might be difficult to find how many there are/how many is a lot, etc.) Of course, again, this is assuming the research was done in the past few years? We can talk about this today.

Also, I do like the idea of the survey, and of working on it after reading more readings, but you may want to remember that what you want to do from the literature review/reading of the literature is to figure out what has or hasn't been done, and specifically if whether what you want to do has been done or not. If it has been done, you want to try to do it a little differently or do a replication (as similar as possible) to see if you get the same results with a different population (Spanish speakers instead of English speakers). If it has not been done, great! What I am saying is, you don't need to use the readings to give yourself extra work do to, if that makes sense. We can talk about this too!

Finally, I saw your search list, and I like it, and I also think you could maybe expand it by going wherever you were already going, or also the LLBA if it was not there, and searching for technology instead of social media. Some researchers may have called it a more general term to get more people to read their article.

Great week!

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Naomi Wahls link
2/4/2013 06:32:05 am

Hi Dr. Martoccio,

Both articles were written in 2012, so it sounds like I can use the information from both. I did glance through Twitter users with "spanish" in the description or name. Just from the quick glance I did, most of the Spanish related users are companies with Spanish software, tutors, and people interested in Spanish. There were very few instructors and even fewer that were related to universities (2 from the brief grouping I saw).

Sounds good about the survey! I wasn't certain if such a survey is necessary. Perhaps once I finish reading more articles, we can make a final decision on the survey. I'll hold off on creating it for now and just consider it an idea at the moment.

Thanks for mentioning LLBA. I will certainly add that to the resource list and search there too. Adding "technology" is a great idea! I will add that to the list. I'm hoping to find more articles this week.

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