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Classroom[edit]
A range of social media can be used to facilitate language learning, including blogs, online role-playing games, fan fiction writing, and so on.

Blogs[edit]
Web logs or blogs are one of many forms of social media. A blog is an online platform that people can use to express issues related to their lives and different viewpoints they may have.[4]  Blogs address a wide range of topics and are used in many different ways for diverse purposes. As blogging architecture became more user-friendly the popularity of blogs increased.[5]

Blogs can be used for language learning. The ability to comment on other peoples blogs as well as have people post comments on your own is key to blogging.[5]  The development of a language is not normally the primary goal of the person who is participating in a blog but a blog is a place that can provide a foundation for reflecting on the language that is being written within it.[5]  Blogs can increase a users language competence as well "blogs are egalitarian learning and teaching tools par excellence".[6]  When writing in a blog it is done to express feelings and to be creative[4]  but as a result language learning can be achieved.

Steven Thorne[7]  has reported a number of trends with respect to blogging and language learning. Blogs used within language classrooms he has observed produce encouraging written production along with increased scores on standardized assessment measures showing significant language development. The use of blogs also enable teachers and instructors to assess written language learning in a relatively accessible way. Blogs, it is argued, allow students to create fluent sets of sentences from sentences that previously would stand alone. It also allows students to write in paragraphs and to use different tenses with more confidence to discuss topics within their blogs.[7]

Hui-Ju Wu and Pai-Lu Wu[8]  finds trends with blogging and language learning. Blogs help with language learning. Blogs help to develop vocabulary, increase reading speed, develop proper use of grammar and enhanced reading comprehension. Blogs produced better sentence fluency, a higher vocabulary, better sentence fluency and an awareness of looking for grammar mistakes in their writing. Blogs can give the confidence to write more sentences and to use different and more tenses.[8]