Should we be Using Twitter in Language Learning
I wonder should we be using Twitter in language learning?
I guess everyone knows what Twitter is but have you actually considered it as a means of improving your English? Probably not might well be your answer and I can think of one reason you might say that. The problem is the amount of characters you can actually send (140), so sentences have to be quite short and concise. Also there is the issue of getting someone to correct what you write, should you make an error, as well as the temptation to use slang or text abbreviations.
However if you already have a social network, perhaps including other English learners, then there might well be scope to develop some language practice using Twitter.
Personally I blog a lot, but blogs by their nature really need to be a bit more lengthy than 140 characters! So using Twitter to say how you feel, what the weathers like or what you are doing might well be a good idea to develop you English language use-call it a micro blogging platform, which could lead to you starting a blog in English too.
On the face of it Twitter certainly seems a fun way to practice short English sentences but for more serious writing perhaps its better to stick with a chat facility which is not governed by a character count. So from me a partial thumbs up for using Twitter in language learning.
What do you think?
