Participants’ Experiences and Interactions on Facebook Group in an EFL Course in Taiwan

Asia-Pacific Education Researcher

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 99-109

  Lin, Vivien ^a   Kang, Ya Chen ^a   Liu, Gi Zen ^a   Lin, Weiting ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b WENZAO URSULINE UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

East Asia; English learning; Facebook; Social networking sites; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957581635     PISSN: 01195646     EISSN: 22437908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40299-015-0239-0     Document Type: Article

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