Examining Facebook as a Digital Immersive Language Environment for French Language Learners

• In Event: CLT - Social Media and Communities of Learning

Short Description

This quasi-experimental study explores the impact of native French language Facebook posts on the motivation and cultural attitudes of university-level beginning French language learners. One group of students received French Facebook posts “pushed” to their personal news feeds while a comparison group received no posts. The level of student activity in the French language posts was also recorded. Although no significant difference between the groups emerged, there are still design implications for language instruction.

Authors

• Shelly Wyatt, University of Cental Florida

• Glenda A. Gunter, University of Central Florida