The Role of Online Media in Language Learning in terms of Special Focus on Journalism Students at Nangarhar University

Abstract

The study is trans-disciplinary in nature where it explores the role of online media in language learning. In this connection, one cannot ignore the close tie up of language and media, which is means of mass communication. It is further a crystal clear fact requirement of certain level of linguistic knowledge for anyone who is entitled a reporter or correspondent. Being a reporter in the sense of communication is more difficult as compare to someone who uses language for daily communication. The language used in journalism is entirely mass communication in nature. The study focuses on particular tools of online media that are proved to be effective and more efficient in the process of foreign language learning since we are living in the era of technology and development. The study even try to proof the contribution of media in general and online media in particular to the discipline called language teaching. The study further made a participant observation that has come along with considerable findings.