With the rapid expansion of digital technology, more and more university students come to English class with their own smartphones, which enable them to use Social Networking Services (SNS), such as Twitter, Facebook, and LINE.They can directly and instantly communicate with people around the world through SNS.These innovative communication tools have changed the way students communicate.They may also broaden the opportunities for communicating in English.We, as English teachers, believed more and more students would use SNS to practice their English outside English classes.However, our previous research (Ueda et al. 2014) revealed that only a few students utilized SNS as their English learning tools.Were they not aware of the effectiveness of using SNS?Or did they avoid using SNS intentionally?In this study, the reasons why Japanese university students are unwilling to accept newly developed technology as English learning tools are investigated.According to our survey, students can recognize the downside and upside of using SNS, hence, a discussion of better SNS usage in class would dispel their worries and anxiety about using SNS.Then, students would find ways of using SNS for language learning outside class.
阿部 et al. (Sun,) studied this question.