Facebook Group Promotes Interaction in Analyzing Short Stories

Abstract

Facebook Social Learning Group appears to be the most supplementary platform in the new blended learning, particularly in the areas with intermittent internet connections. Teachers maximize the use of this social learning platform to deliver basic education to the students in the comfort of their homes. The use of Facebook Social Learning Group helps teachers to facilitate classes shifting from face to face into different teaching modalities with the aid of effective lesson planning and digitized strategies. Moreover, it promotes interaction among the participants and paves the way for students to comprehensively analyze short stories using the social platform. The objective of this research is to explore the use of Facebook as a supplementary platform for Junior High School students to learn English short stories and prompt collaboration. A descriptive qualitative design is used for this purpose and 20 Grade 10 students in Junior High School were purposively selected since they are all exposed to Facebook specifically messenger classroom in the blended learning set-up which is modular and Facebook messenger. The group is in a heterogeneous class consisting of 8 males and