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Application of Facebook Platform Assists Taiwanese Students to Learn Vietnamese

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Emerging Technologies for Education (SETE 2016)

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Facebook is the most popular social networking site among people. It is also a most popular online discussion platform among students. Our research includes two stages, the first stage of this study includes the result of data analyzed from interviews of 23 Taiwanese learners assigned to experiment group in which they were using Facebook as platform to learn Vietnamese. The second stage that comprised control group in which they learned through traditional class room teaching, their data is still not analyzed yet. The result of interview from experimental group showed that, Taiwanese learners were interested in Facebook group to learn Vietnamese. The result suggested that Facebook platform can help boosting up their motivation and confidence, improve Vietnamese languages skills in grammatical, vocabulary, reading and writing.

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  1. Graduate Institute of Learning and Instruction, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

    Thi Thanh Tuyen Mai & Eric Zhi-Feng Liu

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  1. National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan

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  2. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Rome, Italy

    Rosella Gennari

  3. National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Yueh-Min Huang

  4. The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Haoran Xie

  5. MC Information Multimedia Communication AG, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Yiwei Cao

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Mai, T.T.T., Liu, E.ZF. (2017). Application of Facebook Platform Assists Taiwanese Students to Learn Vietnamese. In: Wu, TT., Gennari, R., Huang, YM., Xie, H., Cao, Y. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Education. SETE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10108. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52836-6_70

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