Using social media as a language learning tool | Teacher Network Blog | Guardian Professional

Using social media as a language learning tool | Teacher Network Blog | Guardian Professional:

Children now turn to social media by default. This makes it a great - albeit currently underused - tool for language teaching, says Ryan Owen Gibson

Twitter, Facebook and Youtube could be used to invigorate language lessons.

There's no denying that enthusiasm for learning foreign languagesamongst our schoolchildren is at an all time low. But if things are going to change, teachers and parents need to get smarter