English Language Use amongst Algerian Internet Users in General and EFL Students in Particular

Abstract

Internet is in recent day, has a great impact on the language of users of social media and becoming a part of the user’s daily activities. The present research work aims to investigate the status of English language and its contextual use among the Algerian internet users. The current study investigates the Algerian internet users as well as students of English at Abdel Hamid Ibn Badisuniversity toward the status of English online and its contextual use. In order to achieve our main objectives for this research, two major instruments are used, screen shots and questionnaires. Participants are twenty five Algerian. Users selected from pour different groups on Facebook and also are first year master students (Linguistics) at Abd el Hamid Ibn Badis University. The findings of this study reveale that English has its status among the Algerian internet users even students or teachers or ordinary users in different context expect. The political and the economical one, It also found that social media has a great impact on the language.