"Facebooking" across Asia - Learning English along the Way?
Facebook (FB) is the most popular social networking sites (SNS) in the world at the moment. This factor alone has prompted many educational researchers to investigate how Facebook can be utilized for educational purposes, focusing on the social interaction between users, particularly in the higher e...
| Publicado en: | Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 35 - 50 |
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Universiti Putra Malaysia
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