1. The Use of Facebook Improve Motivation on English learning School: Southern Taiwan University Number:N99C0027 name: Candace Professor: Roger Yang

2. I Introduction II Literature Review III Methodology

3. Introduction Motivation Purpose Research Question

4. Motivation Nowadays, Facebook is a popular way to connect with friends, share, and interact in daily life. Facebook is part of some people’s everyday activity. It can be used as a language-learning tool.

5. Purpose To explore if using Facebook reinforces learners’ motivation on learning English. To explore the learners’ overall impressions of the use of Facebook.

6. Research Question Is there a significant change in motivation type before and after the Facebook exposure? What are the learners’ overall impressions of the use of Facebook?

7. Literature Review Motivation CMC and Facebook Facebook and English learning

8. Motivation Motivation is the driving force behind any successful L2 learning and no matter how skilled a language learner is, long-term learning goals cannot be achieved without motivation. (Aubry, 2009)

9. CMC and Facebook CMC is defined as any type of human interaction facilitated by the use of networked which can be either synchronous (happening in real time) or asynchronous (happening over elapsed time)--Facebook is a kind of asynchronous communication. (Aubry, 2009)

10. Facebook and English learning Online education is one of the fastest growing forms of learning today. (Aubry, 2009) Facebook can be used as a language- learning tool in and outside of the ESL classroom. (White, 2010)

11. Methodology Participants and setting Instruments Procedures Data collection Data analysis

12. Participants Participants Instrument Procedures Data Collection Data Analysis 9 participants (4M/5F) who familiar with researcher. Age: 28.3 Language: Mandarin, Taiwanese Year of learning English: 11.6 years English proficiency: Intermediate in average Major: 2/English; 7/non-English Education:

13. Instrument Participants Instrument Procedures Data Collection Data Analysis Pretest/posttest: - Background information survey - Questionnaire Treatment: Two Reading Articles on Facebook Interview

14. Procedures Participants Instrument Procedures Data Collection Data Analysis Pretest: Questionnaire at the beginning Material: Two Articles from magazines Procedure: Read and respond the articles or other participants’ responses during 6/10-6/14 Posttest: Questionnaire at the last day Interview

15. Data Collection Participants Instrument Procedures Data Collection Data Analysis Background information Questionnaire(pretest/posttest) Messages on the Note of Facebook Interview

16. Data Analysis Participants Instrument Procedures Data Collection Data Analysis Is there a significant change in motivation type before and after the Facebook exposure?  Pretest/Postest Questionnaire (t-test) What are the students’ overall impressions of the use of Facebook?  Interview