期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
印刷版ISSN：1738-7906
出版年度：2020
卷号：20
期号：10
页码：199-205
DOI：10.22937/IJCSNS.2020.20.10.25
出版社：International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
摘要：Social media is in demand now these days; even in learning or teaching as a platform to create social presence for active learning, and usage of Emojis is a creating such a huge gap in the field of research. The study has been documented to investigate the pragmatic approach of Emojis in the Whatsapp group of English as second language learner (ESL) of Pakistan. The study aims to identify the culturally specific context used by Pakistanis speakers which helps to obtain communication through emojis in text-based communication. Discussion has been focused on only most commonly used three emoji as a sub-topic of researcher’s thesis. Wow emoji??, okay??, and Victory ? has been discussed in the study. Methodology has been constructed on Cultural psychological theory in qualitative method. The population has been taken from the first-year students of Quaid-e-Awam University of Science and Technology, Nawabshah, sample unit is 30 partcipants. In the research design, screenshots of partipant’s chat had been taken for contextual analysis.The study supports that expressions are not innate. The study is occupied on the exact usage of Emojis which aids teachers and learners of modern era to use Emojis for their better understanding in social apps.
关键词：Emojis; Flipped classroom; English as second language; cultural specificity;
