Communication dimension of a Facebook group: first-hand experience from an EAP class

The paper analyses student-teacher and student-student interactions in a Facebook group that was created as an alternative learning management system (LMS) for an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course. Our case study is based on students’ perceptions and opinions reconstructed from interviews a...

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Published in:Educational Role of Language Journal Vol. 2; no. 2; pp. 113 - 123
Main Author: Juraj Datko
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Educational Role of Language Association 19.03.2020
Subjects:
case study
facebook group
student-teacher/student-student communication
teaching/learning englih as a foreign language
university student
ISSN:2657-9774
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Summary:The paper analyses student-teacher and student-student interactions in a Facebook group that was created as an alternative learning management system (LMS) for an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course. Our case study is based on students’ perceptions and opinions reconstructed from interviews and diaries and uses traceable objective data from the Facebook group as a complement. The research sample includes thirty-four undergraduates. Our results indicate that Facebook group is perceived as an effective communication channel due to various reasons such as immediacy of feedback or peer interactions outside the language class. Based on our findings, we formulate recommendations for practice.
ISSN:2657-9774
DOI:10.36534/erlj.2019.02.10