Synergizing Facebook and YouTube for e-Teaching Grammar during Covid-19 Pandemic
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Background:Due to the on-going global COVID-19 pandemic, instructors were propelled to move from face-to-face instruction or even blended learning to online-only instruction to be able to assist, help and e-teach their students in the context of remote distance education.Both actors moved beyond the physical bounds of educational institutions and thus found refuge in social media sanctuary.For this reason, I devised a webenhanced mode of e-teaching that stems from combining some of the main educational features of two prominent social network platforms namely, Facebook and YouTube.An open community of practice in an open Facebook group was created.It included more than 80 third year secondary school students belonging to six distinct specialties and 50 high school English teachers from different cities, with the aim of leveraging digital technology to explore the potential of these social-media-mediated pathways.To supplement and consolidate secondary students' understanding of grammar lessons, personalized YouTube videos were created by taking into account the interlinked prongs of lingual, social, and cultural perspectives in the creation of these multi-mediaformat pedagogical materials in a storytelling framework.
Author: R. El A. Ghobrini
Institution: Université de Mostaganem
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3109463536