Students’ Perception of Using facebook as an Interactive Learning Resource at University by Michael Leveritt

 English Academic Purpose II

Australian journal of educational technology

Students’ Perception of Using facebook as an Interactive Learning Resource at University by Michael Leveritt

The propose of blended learning through web tools such as email, blog, facebook to offer an environment that helps to engage students and enrich the quality of the student experience through interactive learning activities. Facebook is an online communication tool allowing users to construct a public or private profile in order to connect and interact with people who are part of their extended social network (Boyd & Ellison, 2007). A recent study by Wise at al (2011) found that the students spent an average of one hour a day on the site to engage in social interaction and only small proportion of the students use facebook in academic engagement so in this paper will discuss the students’ perceptions of using facebook to support both their academic and social goals.

After evaluating the students’ perceptions the researcher conclude that the use of facebook page had been integrated into several university courses which students appear to be receptive to use facebook for educational purpose because they could receive academic information on Facebook, it also was something they were accessing frequently and didn’t have to log in to an additional university based web page to receive that information. Institution based learning management systems often require students to navigate to the university website, insert a password and then navigate to the correct course page before being able to receive announcements or information. Students may see this process as problematic. Facebook on the other hand, appears to be a site that students are interacting with frequently, particularly given that applications are available for tablet and smart phone devices. This provides a convenient environment in which academic information can be integrated into a space that students are already using.

To sum up, the findings from this study indicate that students are receptive to incorporating Facebook into their academic lives and perceive benefits through enhanced communication, interaction, and flexibility in course content delivery. [1]

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[1] Students’ perceptions of using Facebook as an interactive learning resource at university Christopher Irwin,  Lauren Ball and Ben Desbrow Griffith University Michael Leveritt The University of Queensland

The effectiveness of using English comic strip in teaching writing of narrative text by Yulia Ratnasari

English for Academic Purpose II 

The effectiveness of using English comic strip in teaching writing of narrative text by Yulia Ratnasari  

The journal discuss about how effective English comic strip in teaching writing narrative text. To develop student in writing narrative becomes an interesting activity the teacher should use an appropriate method. One of media that can be used is a comic strip. There are many fruitful that the teachers and the students get from comic strip when it applied in teaching narrative text.

For student, picture in the comic strip can help students to visualize and construct story ideas to be written so narrative writing activity will be easy. Beside that, by using this media, students can also find new vocabularies. They can use the new vocabularies to develop into some sentences to arrange a story based on their comprehension and ideas so they can transfer or express their thought with full of potential. For teacher, it can be very useful since it is cheap and no time consuming the student will feel in writing.

It can be concluded that teaching writing narrative text using English comic strip are effective and useful to be taught to the students[1].     

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[1] THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING ENGLISH COMIC STRIPS IN TEACHING WRITING OF NARRATIVE TEXT

(A Quasi-Experimental Research at the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Islam Al- Ikhlas in the Academic Year 2013/2014)