Journal Resume 14

USING FACEBOOK IN ELT: HIGHER SECONDARY TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVE IN BANGLADESH

Md Mahadhi Hasan

Lecturer in English & PhD Researcher

Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur (IUKL)

Centre for Post Graduate Studies, Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur (IUKL)

Nadia Amin Labonya

Assistant Professor at Govt. of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, & TESOL Graduate from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 

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This study explores the perspective of Higher Secondary teachers in using Facebook for learning English language. This study conducted in ten leading goverment institutions for higher secondary education in Bangladesh. This involves 100 teachers. In conducting the study, the author use questionaire in this survey. The questionaire consist of two sections. In Section A, participants’ gender, language ability, teaching experience and usability of FB were collected. And Section B was designed to explore information about teacher’s perspective on FB as an ELT tool with a construct.

The survey found teachers quite comfortable in using FB in their personal and administrative work but at the same time it is also found that these same teachers are not using social software tools in teaching-learning technique

The study leaves few important recommendations for the teachers and researchers. First, the teachers need to be educated in ICT sector. Second, teachers need to practice the learnt IT skills. Third, teachers need to incorporate English topics or contents into Facebook. Learners need to utilize Facebook for learning purposes besides entertainment. Finally Facebook can be included as a tool for learning English language at Higher Secondary level.