The Role of Feedback Comments on Online Posts in Learning English Vocabulary and Phrasal Expressions
Rozhgar Jalal Khidhir
Salahaddin University
Othman Qadir Omer
Salahaddin University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.5.4.1.1
Keywords: Feedback comments, vocabulary, phrasal expressions
Abstract
The study is an exploratory research which generally aims to generate a hypothesis regarding the efficacy of using feedback comments on social network for language learning purpose namely English vocabulary and phrasal expressions based on the university students’ both perception and experience. Teaching and learning have been unceasingly and unwillingly restrained to input exposition in classes without having been considering tie strengthening with the outside, i.e., real world. As teaching and learning a foreign language has been understood as getting involved with the culture, there have always been challenges with the ways how one could have an access to. Additionally, due to social media several methods have been tried out to learn English language better and effectively but less or almost none has yet attended to the use of feedback comments to do so. Therefore, the present study tries to work on the gap and reveal out the role and the strength of using this method to learn or improve English language by getting an in –depth insight in the users’ viewpoint. The study attempts to answer the following questions respectively, (i) what are the students’ perception concerning the use of feedback comments for learning?, (ii) to what extent can feedback comments, from the students’ perspectives, aid to learning English as a foreign language?, (iii) can feedback comments as well as posts on socials networks serve as a worthwhile academic platform for learning English language vocabulary and phrasal expressions? The study aims to gain insights regarding the efficacy of feedback comments on social networks in learning English vocabulary and phrasal expressions. In addition, it intends to unveil the extent to which the input exposition as feedback comments allows for learning English vocabulary and phrasal expressions. A mixed approach for seeking data is used, i.e., qualitative and quantitative. Thus, a structured questionnaire as well as an interview is administered to meet the aims of the study. University students in Kurdistan Region of Iraq at Salahaddin University- Erbil, College of Basic Education are target population of the study. The study concluded the followings, (i) the generation of an explorative hypothesis as EFL vocabulary and phrasal expressions can be efficiently learned due to the interaction with posts and feedback comments on social networks, (ii) having access to experiencing and interacting with so-called virtual authentic culture of English Language due to posts and feedback comments on social networks,
