Abstract:
Telegram is now considered as one of the most famous platform online social networks among media university students. Nowadays, the immense popularity of social networking websites such as Telegram has created new opportunities for English learners. Accordingly, the present study aims to investigate whether Telegram would be an effective and easy learning tool of vocabulary for Iranian female EFL learners at Intermediate Level at Payam Noor University, Babol, Iran. The participants in this study were 50 female EFL learners, ranging from 18-28 years old, selected from 100 cases. Pretest and posttest were also used to assess learners' knowledge about vocabulary taught during the session (four weeks). The data were collected and analyzed by SPSS. The results indicated that in spite of the popularity of social networks, Telegram learning can bring unique technological and pedagogical advantages for EFL learners and has a significantly positive effect on the development of vocabulary learning. The findings of this study are considered to be useful in English methodology issue
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The Social Impact of Telegram as a Social Network on Teaching English Vocabulary among Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners ( Payam Noor Center) Davood Mashhadi Heidar*1 Maryam Kaviani2 Received 15 March 2015; Accepted 18 October 2016 Abstract: Telegram is now considered as one of the most famous platform online socialnetworks among media university students.
Accordingly, the present study aims to investigate whether Telegram would be an effective and easy learning tool of vocabulary for Iranian female EFL learners at Intermediate Level at Payam Noor University, Babol, Iran.
The results indicated that in spite of the popularity of social networks, Telegram learning can bring unique technological and pedagogical advantages for EFL learners and has a significantly positive effect on the development of vocabulary learning.
The present study aims to investigate whether Telegram would be an effective vocabulary learning tool in EFL classrooms in Payam Noor University or not?
3. Research Question Given the importance of the vocabulary learning in learning a new language and the opportunities that Telegram provides, the present study addresses the following question: "Does the use of Telegram have any significant effect on EFL intermediate level learners' vocabulary learning?" 4.
In order to apply the treatment on the experimental group, the university students joined three social channels of Telegram which were the most operative channels for learning vocabulary.
In fact, this paper was generally an attempt to assess the effectiveness of using Telegram in vocabulary learning of a group of Iranian EFL learners at intermediate level at Payam Noor University.