School-based print texts and didactic teaching appear slow and unexciting, thus there is a need to integrate social networking sites in the teaching and learning process. Facebook is one of the social networking sites that has captured the attention of educators in language teaching and learning. The use of Facebook in teaching Literature is beneficial and gives teachers the chance to improve teaching via a lively classroom. This study surveyed the perceptions of secondary school teachers on the use of Facebook in teaching literature. A 30-item questionnaire was administered to 100 secondary school teachers in Malaysia. The teachers from 10 states were involved in this study and they are currently teaching English language in secondary schools in Malaysia. The findings indicated that teachers found Facebook as the most useful aspect of Internet in teaching literature and they prefer to use Facebook as a teaching tool compared to the classroom blackboard. This study recommends the use o.....

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Facebook as one of the social networking sites has captured the attention of educators and policy-makers as an alternative tool for language teaching and learning. The use of Facebook made the teaching and learning process interesting for the students and had given the students an opportunity to better understand novels. The objectives of the study were to explore the use of Facebook in learning literature among lower secondary school ESL students and to investigate their perception during the learning process. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research. This study had two phases of investigation. The first phase involved survey-questionnaires. Meanwhile, the second phase involved conducting a quasi-experiment and semi-structured interviews. The subjects employed for the study were 60 lower secondary ESL school students using purposive sampling method. The subjects, were then divided equally for the treatment and control groups. The findings .....

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