Facebook as an Online Tool for Learning English among Private Institutes’ Students in Kurdistan

Abstract

Facebook, an internet and social networking application, is a part of the daily lives of millions of students throughout the world. Students utilize Facebook to communicate with one another and to participate in games, because they utilize Facebook on a regular and comfortable basis. The participants in this research study were selected from Private Institutes in Erbil, Kurdistan, by the researchers. The researchers used a quantitative approach to analyze the current study, with a particular emphasis on descriptive statistics. The questions in the survey were created by the researchers to encourage students to choose the response that best reflects their typical Facebook usage without infringing on their personal information. The findings revealed that students who took part in the study made some personal decisions that were in opposition to those made by their peers, which was due to the nature of human beings. However, when it comes to using Facebook as an online tool for language acquisition, the good impressions outweighed the negative ones by a wide margin. The students perceived Facebook as a positive tool that could be implemented into educational systems so that it could be utilized in conjunction with other approaches. Since the usage of Facebook in daily life has become inevitable, why not use it for a good cause? It is necessary to conduct more in-depth research in order to collect more data as well as to form a sort of public opinion in order to make this piece of research more reliable and valid. This will allow us to make the research more formal and effective by collecting more data and forming a sort of public opinion.