مجلة جامعة وهران 2
Volume 6, Numéro 1, Pages 14-23
2021-06-30

Language Teachers And Virtual Communities Of Practice: The Case Of Facebook

Authors : Laiche Sara . Ghaouar Nesrine .

Abstract

Educators highlighted technology's great significance in teaching and learning situations regarding the challenging requirements of the network-based environment, which has increasingly dominated different sorts of information exchanges and educational opportunities. This ongoing research aims to identify the importance of technological facilities to allow language teachers developing new strategies that are different from the traditional one through building a community of practice (CoP) on a Facebook platform named "Algerian Association of English Language Teachers". The research opts for an explanatory research method whereby an online questionnaire was administered to 76 EFL teachers from different Algerian educational institutions. A group focus interview was conducted with 15 teachers from over Facebook group chat. The study revealed that participants share knowledge, resources, advice, and insights. They collaborate and communicate to provide feedback, support each other.

Keywords

CoP ; digital era ; Facebook group ; virtual communication ; teacher education