As the world is becoming increasingly borderless with the advent of technology, the academic spaces  are increasingly becoming less confined to the four walls of a classroom. Many higher educational  institutions abroad have started harnessing the connective power of SNSs to further engage with  students outside the classroom. In line with this current trend in education, ideally there should  be online platforms which support the teaching and learning of subjects in Malaysian secondary  schools. This research is a systematic study of design, development and evaluation processes to  establish an empirical basis for the creation of THE EXCHANGE, a prototype of a virtual platform  using a SNS, to support the teaching and learning of English in a secondary school. The development  of THE EXCHANGE is based on an ISD model, ADDIE. The research also aims to obtain the users'  evaluation on the prototype developed in terms of its usability. THE EXCHANGE is evaluated by 46  .....

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