FBI = Facebook Interaction

1. FBI and Essay Writing Pre-task:
Yemeni EFL students’ Perceptions,
attitudes and challenges
Mohialdeen Alotumi
PhD Scholar
EFL University
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2. Last Century Innovations
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4. ICT
radically transformed
the way people
learn
communicate
do business
• Daniels (2002, p. 3)
“Information and communication technology
(ICT) has become, within a very short time,
one of the basic building blocks of modern
society.”
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5. Present generation learners changed fundamentally
from past generation learners
Not only
But also
• Clothing
• Hairstyles
• Learning
• Thinking
• Processing
information
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6. Technology in Education
Prensky (2001)
Digital
natives
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Digital
immigrants
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8. • How many of you are digital natives?
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9. • How many of you are digital immigrants?
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10. The fact now
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11. Computer Mediated
Communication
(CMC)
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12. CMC is defined as
“reading, writing and communication
via networked computers.”
(Warschauer 2001, p. 207)
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13. CMC
Synchronous
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Asynchronous
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14. A good tool of CMC: Social Network
Sites (SNSs)
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15. The most Popular: Facebook
• Active Facebook users worldwide =
1,230,000,000
(December 31, 2013)
• Active Facebook users in Yemen =
1,200,000
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(September 10, 2013 )
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16. Why use Facebook
Facebook
Interactivity
feature
(Zhao, 2003)
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Grammar &
spelling checkers
(Jacobs & Rodger,
1999)
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Positive impact/
attitude &
motivation
(Kabilan et al, 2010)
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17. Challenges: Incorporating Web 2.0
tools
Challenges/Web 2.0
User’s safety
( Selwyn, 2007)
Lack of
information
Privacy
(Grass & Acquisiti,
2009)
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Time
management
(Selwyn, 2007)
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18. In this study
TBL (Willis, 1996)
TBLT (Nunan, 2004)
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19. This study attempts to answer:
How does Facebook interaction (FBI) assist
Yemeni higher intermediate EFL students in
writing their essays?
What are the Yemeni higher intermediate EFL
students’ attitudes towards FBI integration in
the writing class?
What are the challenges faced by Yemeni
higher intermediate EFL students while utilizing
FBI in the writing class?
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20. Facebook Groups
• Fun for Interaction
• Interaction for Fun
• Interaction is Fun
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21. Methodology
AMIDEAST-Sana’a
50 higher intermediate EFL students
(28 M, 22 F)
Same level but different classrooms
Online questionnaire (17 closedended + 3 open-ended ones)
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22. Results
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23. Topic
familiarity
New
Vocab
Better
thought
Perceptions
Spelling
errors
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Mindmapping
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26. Tips
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