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Facebook virtual classroom with four learner-created content assignments

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Description

The treatment was a closed Facebook group acting as a virtual classroom in which groups of four students created and shared content about assigned vocabulary. The wall feature let members "share their presentations, videos, photos and other documents" and comment on each other's posts. Four assignments structured the twelve-week treatment: Facebook presentations, blog e-portfolios, vocabulary exercises with quizzes, and creating or editing Wikipedia, Wikitravel and Wikihow entries.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • A researcher-created closed Facebook group enrolling all students
  • Groups of four assigned ten vocabularies per week
  • An agenda covering the expected 500 vocabularies in three months

Constraints

  • Membership was initially voluntary; only 16 of 23 students joined at first
  • Mother-tongue (Turkish) commenting caused arguments and needed prohibiting

Target Learners

  • adult EFL university preparatory students

Learning Goals

  • English vocabulary knowledge at recognition level

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Omer Eren. (2015). Vocabulary Learning on Learner-Created Content by Using Web 2.0 Tools. Contemporary Educational Technology, 6(4), 281-300. https://www.cedtech.net
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title Facebook virtual classroom with four learner-created content assignments
description The treatment was a closed Facebook group acting as a virtual classroom in which groups of four students created and shared content about assigned vocabulary.
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generated by process:settle-candidates on 2026-11-03
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