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Received: 02/05/19 Published: 29/05/19Authors
1. Nguyen Thi Hong Minh
, University of Education - TNU2. Nguyen Thi Thu Huong, University of Education - TNU
3. Ngo Thu Huyen, University of Education - TNU
Abstract
Young people including students have developed their language use in social networking sites like Facebook in their own ways, among which the insert of English in their posts has become part of their communication and a quite new interesting fact. However, it seems that there have been not so many research working on this phenomenon. This study aims at investigating how students use English in their social forums on Facebook at Thai Nguyen University of Education as well as their viewpoints on the use of English in those networks. Moreover, it analyzes the quality of students’ English use and provides some further discussions which may give insights on the situation. Hence, the paper hopefully provokes a more systematic study on the use of English in Vietnamese social forums as a linguistic and social phenomenon.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.34238/tnu-jst.2019.06.977
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