Le rôle des médias sociaux dans l’enseignement des langues étrangères : une étude de cas pour le FLE

Abstract

While language teachers are quite used to using online resources in their teaching, the integration of social media is still relatively rare. However, since one of the key objectives of language teaching is to facilitate interaction and communication, language teachers should be encouraged to consider using these tools to make their students’ language learning experience richer in terms of authentic communication. The increased use of virtual learning environments (VLE) in Higher Education has facilitated greater student engagement with online activities and VLEs such as Moodle include many social media tools, allowing educators to incorporate them easily into the learning platform.The aim of this article is to examine how multiple social media tools could be used for teaching French as a foreign language as well as to report on the outcome of a single-case research project, which sought to establish students’ receptiveness towards the use of multiple social media tools for language learning.