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Pull Your Students to the Target Language: Facebook
for Language Learning
April 4, 2014Technological Tools for Successful Teaching and Learning - Roundtable
Fabrizio FornaraFlorida State University
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Social Networking Sites in
Education• Web 2.0 technologies for language-learning: blogs,
wikis, virtual worlds, podcasts, and social networking sites (SNS) (Wang & Vásquez, 2012).
• Social networking sites:o student-student networkso social and collaborative learningo individual control o online and blended learning settings
• Social networking sites enhance students’o attitude (Antenos-Conforti, 2009)o engagement (Junco, Heibergert, & Loken, 2011)o performance (Shih, 2011)o autonomous learning (McBride, 2009)
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Facebook in Education
• Most popular SNS among American college students (Junco, Heibergert, & Loken, 2011)
• Familiar, informal learning environment• Constant exposure to the target language• Desktop and mobile• Target language part of students' daily life • Interactions similar to class’ interactions (McBride,
2009)
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• Student-instructor, student-student, and student-material interactions
• Instructor: facilitator of information• Learners actively involved (Wang, Woo, Quek, Yang, &
Liu, 2012)
• Material: authentic, contextualized, retrievable from the Internet
• Privacy: Users are not reciprocally connected,
Facebook in Education (cont.)
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Facebook Page
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Facebook Page (cont.)• Students are not mutually connected • Students “like” the course page personal
account• New material posted students’ news feed• Integrate other language learning activities• Graded activity participation, not correctness• Daily new activities: Text, multimedia resources,
questions• Two main sections:
o Wallo Events
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Wall - Home Page
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Wall - Home Page (cont.)
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Wall - Home Page (cont.)
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Wall - Home Page (cont.)
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Events
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Events
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Events
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Events
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Limits
• Students may perceive the Facebook activities as an extra task in addition to the workload of the course
• Students may be uncomfortable with using Facebook for class activities, not wanting to mix leisure activities and spaces with formal instruction
• Instructors may have to obtain institutional approval to use Facebook in a formal learning setting
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Questions?Thank you!@ffornara
April 4, 2014Technological Tools for Successful Teaching and Learning - Roundtable