Impact of Integrating Facebook with Regular Classroom Instruction on Overall Student Evaluation of the English Language Course Offered at the Undergraduate Level
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Sameera Sultan
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Nazia Imam
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- Keywords:
- Course related Facebook group 1, Physical classroom instruction/teaching 2, Student Evaluation 3
- Abstract
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Facebook is one of the most popular social networking website among the Pakistani youth. It has become eminently predominant to integrate Facebook in academics. Numerous studies point at the positive impact of Facebook when used as a teaching aid with well-defined educational objectives. For this reason, a study was performed on the students of BS Computer Science to find the impact of a course related Facebook group incorporated with regular classroom instruction on students’
overall evaluation of teaching and learning in the context of Pakistan. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 61 consisting of students of three sections of the English Language course. Different tests like factor analysis and regression were performed on the data. The results indicate that Facebook had a positive and desirable impact on students’ evaluation of the course. It is recommended that Facebook must be
incorporated as a teaching tool with specific educational objectives to enhance English Language Teaching. - Downloads
- Published
- 2014-10-06
- Issue
- Vol. 3 No. 4 (2014)
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- Articles