Integrating Social Media and Web 2.0 for enhancing English language skills: tools for Collaboration and Cooperation

Social media has provided new tools for digitally communicating to facilitate learningactivities that promote English learning processes and overall learning experience, for the globalnetizens. One can effectively impact English learning, using social media with both qualitative andquantitative approaches. This article addresses the perspectives and its related challenges using a sharedlanguage teaching system which is being carried out through Social Media and Web 2.0 tools. Based onsocial constructivism, we argue that learning foreign languages is an individual, collective as well as acognitive learning process. Using social media, student's interactivity and global participation can beenhanced by keeping them engaged in an innovative way, especially for new generations of students.This article illustrates on the use of social media in an educational setting and means to encouragelearning by creating, sharing, and developing private, collaborative knowledge. The collaborativelearning processes incorporated in an enhanced learning environment in social media are conducive toeffective adult language learning. The research also addresses some problems related to using socialmedia for the process of teaching and learning. Several Web 2.0 innovations have rushed into everydaylife since 2004. The term, Web 2.0, contains a variety of different implications resulting in higheremphasis on user-generated content, knowledge exchange, collaborative and cooperative effort, learnerto-learner interactivity, and informal and formal based learning. Web 2.0 is based on modernformulation of online learning paradigm as opposed to conventional web-based or e-learningparadigms.This paper is an attempt to explore Social Media and Web 2.0 as a means of Collaborationand Co-operation, thereby leading to an enhanced and an enriched learning environment for the modernscholar.