Poetic compositions, Twitterature, memes, and more… several new options can help learners to acquire proficiency in the language
We need to liberate ourselves from the pedagogical belief that English is acquired chiefly from teachers, textbooks and classrooms. This restrictive perception has only created hatred and phobia for the language, and led learners to doubt their cognitive capability, which has adversely affected their learning of other subjects, too.
The universal truth is that languages are acquired by employing them dynamically, and not by passively consuming them. With 3.96 billion — roughly 51% of the global population today — accessing social media sites, there are immense possibilities for learning English realistically and effortlessly. Of course, there are grave concerns such as fake news, deepfakes, hate speech, cyberbullying, stalking, trolling, phishing and data theft but the inherent strengths of social media sites, such as multiple directions of…