Teenagers, Digital Media, and Language Development: An Exploration of Potential and Challenges in Promoting Their English Skills

Nofianto, Norma and Puspitasari, Dewi and Maulida, Chusna (2020) Teenagers, Digital Media, and Language Development: An Exploration of Potential and Challenges in Promoting Their English Skills. Journal of English Teaching and Learning (JETLI), 3 (2).

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Abstract

Digital media has a significant role in the development of English for teenagers. The rapid development in digital technologies enables the teacher to be creative and innovative in teaching a second language, it can be used as a tool to enhance language learning, through increasing the opportunities for contact with native speakers and input from the target language. The research design used in this study was a literature study and collected data through any kinds of information from books and articles. The researcher chose and analyzed the information about the potential and challenges of digital media in promoting English language development for teenagers. The challenges of fostering English language development through digital media in teenagers based from literature reviews are teachers ‘problems in selecting and using instructional media, problem with curriculum, syllabus design, and lesson plan, problem with students with special needs, problem with noisy classes and student discipline problems with classroom physical size. Digital media is a potential of promoting English language development in teenagers depends on the ability of teachers to minimize the challenges.

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