The Effectivness of Social Media in Promoting Interaction in EFL classroom Case Study of Third Year LMD English Students at University of Abbess Laghror Khenchela
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2018
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UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA
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Our modest research aimed at exploring the use of social media in EFL
classroom and its effectivness in promoting interaction for students. The present work
invistigate the importance of social media with its concepts communication,
collaboration,sharing) in motivate and promoting interaction in EFL classroom with
both types (teacher-student interaction and student-student interaction) .The
hypothesis adopted in this study sets out that using social media in EFL classes will
enhance student's interaction and promote them to participate ,where their difficulties
can be traced .the research method adopted for this piece of work was purely
descriptive, which explains that its aim is to describe the effectivness of social media
in promoting interaction in EFL classroom. The required data were gathered through
self-completion questionnaires administrated to 3rd year students of English ,as well as
their teachers at the intensive language teaching university of Abbes Laghror
khenchela.
The results obtained have shown that social media is an effective pedagogical
tool for increasing learner's language use and fostering classroom participation wich
in turn improves student's interaction .On the light of these results, the earlier stated
hypothesis was successuffly confirmed in that enhancing interaction and language
learning basically need to be accompained with social media as a first-aid technique
to reduce collaboration and communication inside EFL students, and promoting
interaction proficiency.
On the basis of the results obtained ,some recommendation have been
proposed to help students overcome their difficulties in order to promote interaction,
and the use of social media in EFl classroom will promote interaction of students and
facilate the way of teaching.