The impact of social media on EFL learner's achievement : the case of first year master's students of the department of english at université of Bejaia

Abstract

The present dissertation attempts to investigate the impact of Social Media on EFL students` learning achievement. The current study was based on a quantitative and qualitative design to gather and analyze data. Thus, a questionnaire was administered to 30Master one students of Linguistics, and an interviews conducted with 5 teachers of Master one linguistics. The obtained results showed that most teachers strongly believe that through using social networks which allow sharing ideas, and connecting with native speakers, EFL learners could improve and build up their learning achievement of the target language. Furthermore, they recognized the integration of such technology (Social Media) in the academic context as a successful way to fulfill their learning and teaching goals with adequate training and use of these social networks.