TL;DR
Findings show that platforms like WeChat enhance reading engagement and comprehension through authentic texts, peer interaction, and multimodal input, and that learner motivation emerges as a cross-cutting outcome, driven by autonomy, social presence, and interactive environments.
The results indicate that social media can enrich language acquisition by delivering valuable experience, growing motivation, and helping autonomous learning, and reminds that social media can serve as an effective extra tool for enhancing English proficiency in an engaging way.
It was determined that social media tools and digital platforms reinforce students' Kazakh language use practices and facilitate identity repositioning and gamification, artificial intelligence-based dialogue systems, and personalized learning models were found to have positive effects on language outcomes, although these effects vary according to the type of tool and pedagogical context.
The study concludes that while digital tools offer transformative potential, their effectiveness depends on structured institutional support and teacher professional development, and prominent challenges include the digital divide and unequal access to infrastructure, varying levels of digital literacy among both students and educators, and technical glitches.
It is concluded that pedagogical value depended less on the isolated tool than on task design and the formative use of feedback, and hybrid sequences showed the most consistent pattern by combining individual rehearsal, teacher mediation, and peer interaction.
It is concluded that Moodle was perceived as a relevant environment for complementing vocabulary learning; however, its contribution depends on the pedagogical design of activities and does not, by itself, demonstrate objective improvement in lexical performance.
It is concluded that TikTok represents an innovative educational resource with the potential to complement traditional English teaching and promote more dynamic, participatory, and student-centered learning experiences.