Social Media Use: A Critical Analysis of Facebook's Impact on Collegiate EFL Students' English Writing in Thailand

<p>In this technology era, a new trend of using Social Media or Social Networking Sites (SNSs) has been recently highlighted. Social media influences people’s lives in many aspects including education and English language learning. The purpose of this study is to examine whether using Facebook online impacts the type (formal or informal) of English EFL students use for in-class writing or not, as well as to understand the students’ perceptions on how the use of Facebook helps to facilitate or inhibit their English writing skills.</p> <p>The study was conducted by using qualitative research methods to explore EFL college students’ writing behavior on the Facebook platform and understand the perspectives of students involved in using Facebook. The data collection methods were observation and interviews.</p> <p>Participants consisted of 32 students, mostly freshmen college students. The site for this study was Center Bangkok University (CBU, pseudonym) in Thailand, a university located in Bangkok. The study took place during a 5-week period from November 11, 2013 until December 12, 2013. The interviews were conducted with 16 students from the 32 and two teachers, each lasting about 45-60 minutes. After the data was coded and analyzed, three major findings that answer the research questions were emerged.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD Higher Education Leadership, Management, Policy

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education Leadership, Management and Policy

Year dc:date.available

2014

Author dc:creator

• Kamnoetsin, Tharinee

Contributors dc:contributor

• Eunyoung Kim, Ph.D
• Joseph Stetar, Ph.D
• Michael Reed, Ph.D

• EFL students’ writing
• Facebook
• Social media
• Facebook writing
• Collegiate Students
• Thai students
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Higher Education
• Special Education and Teaching
• Teacher Education and Professional Development

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.shu.edu/dissertations/2059

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarship.shu.edu:dissertations-3075