جسور المعرفة
Volume 9, Numéro 4, Pages 254-263
2023-12-24

The Role Of Facebook And Youtube In Enhancing Efl Learners ' Cultural Communicative Competence

Authors : Madani Habib .

Abstract

As our world is permeated by widespread digital technologies, foreign language learners tend to rely hugely on these technologies to enhance their achievements. It is a matter of fact that social media play significant roles in developing EFL learners communicative and cultural knowledge about the target language. Facebook and YouTube offer EFL learners a supplementary setting for interesting and engaging learning activities as they can practice autonomously reading, writing, listening and speaking in non-classroom real life-semblance contexts. Therefore, this study tends to explore the impact of Facebook and YouTube on the development EFL learners’ communicative and cultural knowledge about the target language. A case study was conducted at the department of English in University of Tiaret. The results showed that these two social media platforms play significant roles in enhancing EFL learners’ communicative and cultural competence.

Keywords

Communicative and cultural competence ; Facebook ; EFL Learners ; Social media ; YouTube