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The Impact of Using Facebook as the Media of Learning Academic Writing Skills on English Foreign Learners (EFL) I. Introduction In this millennial era, social media has become one of the things that cannot be avoided. People around the world usually use it for communication and entertainment purpose. Besides, Moorman and Smith (2011) explained if social media such as Facebook provide the users to interact, express, share and create content about anything. By looking at those features that are provided, social media also has a potential to be implemented in Education. However, not all of the social media cannot be applied in the teaching and learning process. School or university have to observe what subject and what social media which is recommended or suitable to be implemented in process of learning. On the other side, the author has found what kind of methodology of learning through social media. It is about how Facebook can be applied in learning Academic Writing skills

How YouTube Impacts People on Learning English YouTube, the biggest and the famous video-sharing website, has the abilities to influence people to learning English. It is caused by there is a lot of videos in YouTube available in English. It makes people who watch certain English videos, especially a foreign speaker, have to read the caption and listen whether they want it or not.   However, this kind of situation will give a good impact to the viewers, because, unconsciously, they will learn, not only a lot of new vocabulary, but also improving their listening comprehension skill through watching YouTube videos. Based on the figure below, YouTube videos are increasing in every single year which means there will more various content that English learner views. The first impact while using YouTube for English Learner is easily to obtain the new vocabulary. Kabooha & Elyas (2015) state that vocabulary is one of the essential components in language learning. Moreover,