Facebook for EFL Teaching and Learning

Together with the growing sophistication of technology, teachers can use it as the way to teach EFL, one of them is using facebook. Nowadays, who doesn’t know facebook or doesn’t have facebook account, especially teenagers? I swear almost most of them have it. Yeah, as teacher, we can use facebook as teaching learning resource.

How to use facebook for EFL teaching?

Although facebook is popular among teenagers, it’s no mistakes if you (as teacher) also have facebook account. For teacher, using facebook, you can join some pages in facebook about the ideas in teaching English, you can contribute there (comment or post something), so you can interact and share ideas with other people around the world. This way will help you increase your creativities in teaching.

Here the example of pages in facebook for teaching English:

• Teaching English-British Council
• Teaching Ideas
• Grammarly
• Songs for Teaching

And then, how about your students? How they can use facebook as EFL learning?

First, you have to make sure your students have had facebook account. If they don’t have yet, you must ask them to register here. It is free.

Second, make a close group in facebook for your class, where you can post materials, assignments, or create discussion with your students there.

Third, give weekly task for your students. For example, they must update status using English at least twice a week, and ask other students to comment it using English. (you can also determine the time or day for they updating status using English)

Fourth, ask them to like some pages that will support them to learn English. You can give recommended pages for them, or maybe they have other pages address. 

The example of facebook's pages for learning English are:

• Learn Real English
• LearnEnglish-British Council MENA
• BBC Learning English
• VOA Learning English

Next, ask them to make friends with students from different country, so they can practice their English. Sometimes, ask them to tell about their friends from different country in the class to make sure they have done your command.

Well, that’s all some ideas about how to use facebook as EFL teaching and learning. Here, the role of facebook is as supplement for teaching, not replacement.