Using facebook to engage Iraqi EFL university students in learning

Abstract EN

Facebook was established in 2004 and has grown up increasable to become not only the most common social networking site in the world but also the most famous social networking tool of the past decade for students' online learning.

This study attempt to finding out the Iraqi University students' awareness of using Facebook in learning EFL.

The sample who participated in the study were 150 students the 2nd year at the Department of English, College of Education for Human Sciences Wasit University.

Furthermore, results illustrated that students believe their lan¬guage skills improved throughout using Facebook, and further, their confi¬dence, motivation, manner relating to language learning and improved through their previous experiences.

Facebook for learning and teaching because of its unique integrated function that offers pedagogical social and technological.

It also recommends that Facebook's platform provides the student with a large number of activities that can be personalized and customized for students' Teaching and learning requirements whether they be writing, reading listen-ing, or speaking tasks.