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This study aims to build an enjoyable, creative learning and teaching environment that helps students revise selected vocabulary items while keeping learners engaged. Memes were used as a revision tool. A quiz measured vocabulary recall before and after the experiment, and a feedback form collected students’ opinions afterward. Results indicate a positive effect on Medicine students’ vocabulary recall, supporting memes as an innovative instructional strategy.","OPEN ACCESS  \nManuscript ID: EDU-2021-09033908  \nVolume: 9  \nIssue: 3  \nMonth: June  \nYear: 2021  \nP-ISSN: 2320-2653  \nE-ISSN: 2582-1334  \nReceived: 17.04.2021  \nAccepted: 25.05.2021  \nPublished: 01.06.2021  \nCitation:  \nKayali, Nurda Karadeniz, and Aslı Altuntaş .“Using Memes in the Language Classroom.” Shanlax  \nInternational Journal of Education, vol. 9, no. 3, 2021, pp. 155-160.  \nDOI: [https://doi.org/10.34293/](https://doi.org/10.34293/)[ ](https://doi.org/10.34293/)[education.v9i3.3908](education.v9i3.3908)  \nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License  \nUsing Memes in the Language Classroom  \nNurda Karadeniz Kayali  \nGazi University, Ankara, Turkey  \n [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5536-3218](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5536-3218)  \nAslı Altuntaş  \nTurkey  \nAbstract  \nTeaching vocabulary is a big challenge for teachers, and also a huge difficulty for students is to remember the vocabulary items. The main purpose of this study is to create an enjoyable learning and teaching environment to help students revise certain vocabulary items and make students have fun by being creative. In that, memes are trendy phenomena which are both entertaining and creative way of expressing one’s feelings on one topic. In this study, memes were used for vocabulary revision. To see its effect on vocabulary recall, a quiz was conducted before and after the experiment. To determine its effect on students’ opinions, a feedback form was also applied after the experiment. The results show that the use of memes affected the vocabulary recall of the Medicine students positively. Therefore, they could be used as one of the strategies to create an innovative learning and teaching process.  \nKeywords: Memes, Vocabulary, Language learning, Language teaching  \nIntroduction  \nOver the past decade, technology has been developing at an overwhelming speed and it is often changing people’s lives to make things easier and better for them. On the other hand, it has taken over control of people’s lives. They cannot go through the day without having to text someone, watch videos, surf the internet or use any kind of tools and applications. It has settled in the center of people’s lives; therefore, without it, they feel disconnected from the world.  \nIn an era when people’s lives are surrounded by so much technology, no one can deny the need to integrate technology in the way people teach and learn. One way of integrating technology in language classrooms is by generating memes.  \nMemes are cultural composites-ideas, symbols, and practices-that spread in multiple forms through imitation and appropriation. The concept of a meme was first applied to evolutionary theory in the 1970s to explain how cultural information (i.e., norms, attitudes, values, and beliefs) spread from person to person by the biologist Richard Dawkins (1976) .  \nThe internet, with its immediate and infinite connectivity, enables memes to evolve faster and spread farther than ever before. Essentially, every new social network is another source of memes (Gleick, 2011) . It is an activity, concept, catchphrase, or piece of media that spreads, often as mimicry or humorous purposes, from person to person via the internet. It may be just a word or phrase, sometimes including intentional misspellings or corrupted grammar. These small movements spread from person to person via social networks, blogs, direct email, or news sources. They may relate to various existing Internet cultures or subcultures, often created or spread on various websites.  \nAn internet meme usually takes the form of animage, GIF, or video. A meme is defined “in our case” as an idea or image spread very quickly on the internet.  \nIn language learning classes teaching and learning vocabulary has a significant importance since the number of new vocabulary is high in one lesson especially if you have to follow a coursebook or if the students are at low proficiency level. 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