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Flipped Learning: Integrating Community Language Learning with Facebook via Computer and Mobile Technologies to Enhance Learner Language Performances in Taiwan

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Multidisciplinary Social Networks Research (MISNC 2014)

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This study investigated how a Community Language Learning (CLL) approach, when utilised via new technology with the social network Facebook, can be most effective in a flipped EFL classroom. Curran [2] claims his CLL approach can reduce learner anxiety and insecurity. One feature of CLL is that trusting relationships are established not only between students and teachers but also among students themselves, and a learning community based on trusting relationships is claimed as the key element for the successful learning of foreign languages. Meanwhile, computer and mobile technologies have grown increasingly influential in many areas, including education. Flipped learning, a learning model first proposed by Sams and Bergmann [11], is becoming widespread globally, and mobile technology makes flipped classrooms both feasible and moveable. Liao and Fu’s study [14] showed that task rehearsal in computer-mediated communication does enhance learners’ performances. Thus, this study focused on learner anxiety and language performance issues.

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  1. Foreign Language Education Centre, National Kaohsiung Marine University, No.142, Haizhuan Rd., Nanzi Dist., Kaohsiung City, 81157, Taiwan

    Paoling Liao

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  1. National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Leon Shyue-Liang Wang

  2. Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea

    Jason J. June

  3. Dept of Electrical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Chung-Hong Lee

  4. Osaka University, Japan

    Koji Okuhara

  5. National University of Kaohsiung, Dept of Information Management, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Hsin-Chang Yang

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Liao, P. (2014). Flipped Learning: Integrating Community Language Learning with Facebook via Computer and Mobile Technologies to Enhance Learner Language Performances in Taiwan. In: Wang, L.SL., June, J.J., Lee, CH., Okuhara, K., Yang, HC. (eds) Multidisciplinary Social Networks Research. MISNC 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 473. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45071-0_8

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