The Correlation Between English Grammar Competence Development and Social Media Engagement

Abstract

Learners have become heavily exposed to foreign languages through various sources. We are at an era where it is easy for us to get familiarized with new languages. Either through language learning applications or through other digital means. One of the sources that has caught our attention is social media. This is due to the fact that the aim of these platforms does not target language development necessarily. However, students are exposed to language there. This study represents a continuum of our previous work, where we have established that learners’ grammatical competence is influenced by the learners’ social media engagement. This work comes to the surface to investigate the issue even further as this work investigates the type of correlation between social media engagement and the development of students’ grammatical competence. The sample of this study were third year Moroccan university students who belong to the English department at Moulay Ismail University, faculty of arts and humanities. The data was gathered through a 5-scale Likert scale and a written grammar test. For the results, the null hypotheses of this work were rejected. Moreover, the students exhibited awareness for their online presence and displayed positive attitudes towards social media engagement.