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Derginin Adı:
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The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
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Cilt:
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2014/15
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Sayı:
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3
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Makale Başlık:
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FACEBOOK GROUPS AS A SUPPORTING TOOL FOR LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS
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Makale Alternatif Dilde Başlık:
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Alternatif dilde başlık bulunmamaktadır. There is no article title in another language.)
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Makale Eklenme Tarihi:
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1.04.2015
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Okunma Sayısı:
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2
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Makale Özeti:
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This paper attempts to present a review of Facebook group pages as an educational tool
for language learning. One of the primary needs of foreign language learners is to gain
the opportunity to use the target language outside the classroom practice. Social media
communication provides occasions for learners to receive input and produce output while
engaging in negotiation of meaning. In line with this point, teachers can instigate class
group pages in the social media in an attempt to provide a space for practice and
communication free of the traditional pedagogic concerns of a typical classroom. The
distinctive discursive behaviour of Facebook group pages helps one to achieve that
attempt. In light of these views, the researcher, in this study, formed a group page to
understand the dynamics of social media environment as a supporting tool for language
classrooms.
This paper addresses various features which make social media a unique place to
contribute to the sense of class community and collaboration outside the classroom. The
face-to face classroom is a controlled communication event, that is, teachers and
students are required to be in the classroom at the same time but a teacher’s use of
Facebook is an attempt to communicate with students outside of that controlled
environment where teachers can meet students in their territory. When compared to its
disadvantages, the advantages of setting a class group page on the social media
outweigh. Students can feel motivated to contribute to an online community if they
subsequently receive support or help. It also leads students to feel that they are being
supported by a whole portion of their class community and promotes students’ desire to
maintain a valued relationship with others. Students continue developing and
strengthening relationships with others.
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