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Impact Of Social Networking Sites On Academic Writing Among Chinese Postgraduates / Ma Jing Wei, Jing Wei Ma Jan 2016

Impact Of Social Networking Sites On Academic Writing Among Chinese Postgraduates / Ma Jing Wei, Jing Wei Ma

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The development and proliferation of web 2.0 technologies as well as Social Networking Sites (SNSs) have expanded tremendously now that Social Networking is part of everyone‘s life. With the expansion of SNSs, scholars assume that this new platform plays an important role in academic writing. On the other hand, many Chinese EFL learners over a decade failed to improve their English academic writing due to the ineffective classroom teacher centred models (Rao and Chan, 2010). The aims of this study are to investigate the relationship between frequency of Chinese postgraduates using SNSs and English academic writing in terms of lexical …