The impact of English usage on social media on college students’ interpersonal communication intentions: a dual mediating model of language confidence and English cultural identity

These results indicate that English use on social media is related to college students' willingness to engage in interpersonal communication via both direct and indirect routes. All identity-related findings in this paper refer specifically to English cultural identity; local, multidimensional, or "dynamic" identities were not empirically measured. Such findings provide a framework for studying the relationship between language use and interpersonal communication within social media contexts and have practical implications for educational and platform design.