Facebook: An online environment for learning of English in institutions of higher education?

Internet and Higher Education

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 179-187

  Kabilan, Muhammad Kamarul ^a   Ahmad, Norlida ^a   Abidin, Mohamad Jafre Zainol ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Facebook; Incidental learning; Language learning

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; FACEBOOK; HIGHER EDUCATION; INCIDENTAL LEARNING; LANGUAGE LEARNING; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; MALAYSIA; MEANINGFUL LEARNING; ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKINGS; POPULAR PLATFORM; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

STUDENTS; TEACHING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 78049461767     PISSN: 10967516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iheduc.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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