Afrikaans students� use of emojis
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Date
2023
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South African Academy for Science and the Arts
Abstract
Everyday five billion emojis are used on Facebook Messenger, one out of every five Twitter
messages contains an emoji and half of all Instagram comments have an emoji (Emojipedia.
org, 2022). The use of emojis in online text messages has become increasingly prevalent in
not only informal online interactions between family and friends, but also in formal contexts
such as WhatsApp messages used in online learning.
Over the last decade the use of WhatsApp has evolved from being used for informal
interactions to being used as a platform for online learning and teaching in schools and
universities. As a learning platform it has proved effective for using text messages to exchange
information and knowledge and discuss lesson content.
In this article a group of undergraduate Afrikaans students� use of emojis in three different
contexts (interactions with friends and family, peers, and tutors; and lecturers) is examined
to ascertain how the differentiation in context influences their use of emojis, how the use of
emojis influences their online communication and how social presence in online learning is
influenced using emojis.
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Afrikaans students, Online learning, Learning platform, Emoji
Citation
Lawrence, D. 2022, "Afrikaans students� use of emojis", Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 743-765.