The Importance Of Facebook For Eaf Students

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In another study, Abdulateef (2013) aimed at choosing Facebook that can reinforce learning from the restricted time of the classroom. A sample of 13 EFL students were administered their writing through two distinct approaches. The selected group was given a pre-test that was included writing an essay using pen and paper. Thena Facebook group was conducted on a Facebook page by a post test and a questionnaire. In questionnaire is questioned students ' attitude utilizing Facebook for writing practice. Findings of the Facebook test proved considerable advancing in comparing to paper and pen test and the questionnaire revealed positive attitudes in applying Facebook to exercise the writing skill. Besides, the participants greatly benefited from …show more content…
To get the purpose of the investigation, 30 teachers were chosen and a research tool, an interview protocol was used to interview teachers. The results of the interviews indicated that the trainees were absolutely pleasant with the survival of e-Hear Me platform as an instrument that proposes e-ICT courses specially expanded for the deaf learners. The present teachers also declared that they could share and interchange ideas with their students and other teachers. Similarly, in the next study, the investigators (Nordin, et al., 2015) evaluated and executed the ICT education courses established from the E-learning portal expanded according to their knowledge and opinion in applying the Web-Portal. As the research sample, 72 Hearing-Impaired students were selected. In this evaluation, questionnaires for the teachers, pupils and skillful evaluators were the investigation tool of the present research. The results showed that there was a positive feedback on the part of the teachers and Hearing-Impaired students towards the knowledge in learning computer

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