Participants’ Experiences and Interactions on Facebook Group in an EFL Course in Taiwan

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• 作者：Vivien Lin ; Ya-Chen Kang ; Gi-Zen Liu ; Weiting Lin
• 关键词：Social networking sites ; Facebook ; English learning ; East Asia ; Taiwan
• 刊名：The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：25
• 期：1
• 页码：99-109
• 全文大小：510 KB
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• 作者单位：Vivien Lin (1)
  Ya-Chen Kang (1)
  Gi-Zen Liu (1)
  Weiting Lin (2)
  
  1. Department of Foreign Languages & Literature, National Cheng Kung University, 1, University Road, Tainan City, 701, Taiwan
  2. Center for English Language Teaching, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, 900 Mintsu 1st Road, Kaohsiung City, 807, Taiwan
  
• 刊物主题：Education (general); Learning & Instruction; Sociology of Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education;
• 出版者：Springer Singapore
• ISSN：2243-7908

文摘

Educational practitioners have attempted to use online technology such as Facebook (FB) in recent years to incorporate learning into students’ daily social media usage. Past studies have explored FB affordances for informal learning, with a lack of investigations on interactive patterns among course participants, especially for learners in East Asian contexts. To fill the research gap, this study adopts the community of inquiry model (CoI) in an attempt to find out (1) how interactions on a FB Group facilitate the formation of an online learning community in Taiwan, and (2) students’ and teacher’s experiences of using FB Group for English learning. Content analysis of the group page through thematic coding, and Chi Square tests resulted in significant relations among interaction types, initiation type, and response type for the posts. Semi-structured interviews further yielded more positive than negative experiences associated with the FB usage. The results are discussed in relation to three elements of the CoI, with an indication of a strong teacher presence for fostering the online learning environment in this particular learning context. Keywords Social networking sites Facebook English learning East Asia Taiwan