Facebook used in a German film project

Vera Leier

New Zealand

University of Canterbury

Submitted: 09/06/2021

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Accepted: 09/06/2021

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Published: 03/22/2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4995/eurocall.2012.16198
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Keywords:

Social Media, Second Language Acquisition, Web 2.0, User Generated Content

Supporting agencies:

This research was not funded

Abstract:

Looking for a way to make German language study more relevant and to step out of the conventional classroom setting, I introduced Facebook (FB) as a learning platform to my intermediate German students at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. The students took part in a film competition. A FB group was created and the films were uploaded. The students and a selected audience commented on the individual entries. German was exclusively used as the language in the group.
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