The Impact of Social Media on 2nd year EfL Students: The Rise of TikTok

Abstract

Within the globalization, new trends of using social media or social networking platforms have been recently highlighted. Social media influence people’s lives in many aspects including education. The Algerian society is not an exception since, TikTok among other social media is more and more used, especially in the daily interactions of students among them students of foreign languages of Tlemcen. The present dissertation aims at studying the impact of social media on EFL learning more precisely TikTok. The researchers hypothesized that TikTok has a huge influence on the four skills of EFL learners. To valid these hypotheses, 30 questionnaires were given to 12 males and 18 females of LMD2 English students. Additionally, TikTok as a social media platform has been observed. The results obtained were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively, and revealed that TikTok affects the process of learning of EFL learners. However, it has implications on the development of three learning skills only listening, speaking, and reading.