Social media offers varied platforms for teachers to use in teaching English. Each platform provides many benefits in the language educational process. When English teachers decide to use social media in class, they need to know which social media platforms can support and improve their students' outcomes and which tool that they can use with students to have them experience English language. This paper will examine the main social media applications that suite teaching English and explain how English teachers can use them in language field in 2015. The data of this paper is based on reviewing journals and books that are related to social media and help English teachers to find out what social media can use for teaching English effectively. It's reviewing new ways of teaching and learning English language as a foreign language which certainly assess improving students' language skills through social media. Really, social media is an urgent need for being provide teachers with the latest methods in teaching English.
Keywords: social media, platforms, teaching English, benefits, experience, improving.