IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/sek/iacpro/0100140.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

EFL@Facebook: Integrating Social Networking Tool As A Medium In Writing Classroom

Author

Listed:
  • Fa-ezah Wasoh

    (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus)

Abstract

Facebook (FB) is now considered as the most popular platform for online social networking among university students. The present study aims to investigate whether Facebook would be an effective and easy teaching and learning tool in EFL writing classroom in Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus. The data was collected from the students writing assignments on Facebook. The findings revealed that the use of Facebook in the teaching and learning of EFL writing English has to a certain extent been effective. Teachers indicated that Facebook is not far different from other new teaching tools. Students showed positive attitude toward using Facebook as a means of learning grammar and writing. As an alternative learning tool, Facebook offered students a convenient and attractive means to engross in discussion with the teacher and peers who had better grammatical and writing knowledge. Nevertheless, Facebook could help them to increase their motivation and build confidence in learning EFL writing as well.

Suggested Citation

  • Fa-ezah Wasoh, 2014. "EFL@Facebook: Integrating Social Networking Tool As A Medium In Writing Classroom," Proceedings of International Academic Conferences 0100140, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:sek:iacpro:0100140
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://iises.net/proceedings/9th-international-academic-conference-istanbul/table-of-content/detail?cid=1&iid=137&rid=140
    File Function: First version, 2014
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sek:iacpro:0100140. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Klara Cermakova (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://iises.net/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.