Facebook kao obrazovni alat u nastavi stranih jezika. (Cree)

The emergence of the new technologies has changed the way people live, think and work which at the same time results in the need for the new forms of teaching and learning. For contemporary education to fulfill the requirements of the new generations frequently addressed as «Digital Natives», it is important to establish connections between the ways students live and learn. Since the social media are already an integral part of many students' e-routine, the need how to use them as an educational tool has been imposed. This paper examines the application of Facebook in foreign language classes and focuses on the way it influences the development of competencies related to target language and its culture. A research has been conducted at the University of Dubrovnik with the aim to find out to what extent the social network Facebook is used in classes with special interest in foreign language classes and the students' perception of Facebook as an educational tool. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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