Collaborative work

TUTOR: MSC. MIGUEL PONCE

SUBJECT: ENGLISH PROJECT DESIGN

STUDENTS: JENNY FLORES - GEOMARA CABRERA

 PART ONE

Research Problem
Usage of Facebook and its effect on English Language learning for students
attending the nineth year of Basic Education at Unidad Educativa Bernardo
Valdivieso, in Loja City Province of Loja, during the first quimestre, 2017-2018
school year.

1.1 Problem Identification

Effect 1.1 Effect 2.1 Effect 3.1

Students failure in Weakening The students cannot

their grade performance use the four skills

Effect 1. Effect 2. Effect 3.

Low enthusiasm Facebook becomes in Ineffective teaching

and motivation a distractor

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING IS OLD

FASHIONABLE

Cause 1. Cause2. Cause 3.

Old fashioned Lack knowledge on the Unfavorable

methodologie advantages of Facebook educational context

Cause 1.1 Cause 2.1 Cause 3.1

Poor innovation in No use Facebook to Lack of resources

teaching improve their materials and
performance technology
 Introduction
Nowadays Facebook plays an important role in the daily life of people mainly for

socializing and interacting, however the students unknown the advantages that

can has this social networking site such as; support collaborative work, sharing

ideas and experiences with people from different places around world, it can

help them to improve abilities to write effectively using correctly the grammar,

common expressions and learning new vocabulary. But reality is that the

students use Facebook only for social purpose or entertainment weakening

performance their grades, because they spend a lot of time becoming in a

leisure that in their academic forums or activities to performance their skills.

Another cause are old fashioned methodologies used for the teachers, they are

only focused in grammar structures because their knowledge or domain is poor

about English language, they needs more training to improve their professional

profile, because they in the classroom became in a model of communicative

performance in terms of fluency, pronunciation, vocabulary etc. unfortunately

this cause has negative effects on the students because they lose motivation

and enthusiasm to learn English language and it is reflected in their grades.

Unfavourable educational context by not providing the resources and conditions

that are important to help the students in their learning such as; materials and

technology (laboratories, libraries), spaces appropriate physicist, small class

groups (less than 20 students), it cause affect the teaching learning process
because it will not be productive and conducive. This unfavourable context

becomes in an ineffective teaching because these deficiencies interfere in the

intentionality to teach to the students, unfortunately it is an effect negative for

students which induce a poor development of the four competences (writing,

reading, listening and speaking).

It is evident that a student from nineth year of Basic Education at Unidad

Educativa Bernardo Valdivieso lacks learning resources to prepare students

that interact in the real world, inadequate methodologies causing a low

motivation. For these reasons, we analyze the situation in this educational unit.

1.2 Problem Formulation

What is the effect of Facebook usage in the English learning for students

attending the Nineth year of Basic Education at Unidad Educativa Bernardo

Valdivieso, in Loja City Province of Loja, during the first quimestre, 2017-2018?

1.2 Variable matrix

VARIABL DEFINITION DIMENSIONS SUBDIMNESIO SUBDIMNEISONS

ES NS

I V. Facebook is a Social People Entertaining

social networking
Faceboo mainly for networking Passing time
socializing and
k interacting with communication
people all over
the world, it is a
tool that helps to
learn a new
language.
DV. Communicativ Reading Vocabulary
Text
English Student`s e skills comprehension
activities to narrative
learning acquire Fluency
communicative
skills and become Writing
proficient users of Descriptive
English language. Learning
grammar
Listening

Hearing
Understanding
Speaking

Fluency
Pronunciation

1.3 Objectives
1.3.1 General Objectives
To determine how usage Facebook influence in the learning of the English
language.
To analyse how the use of Facebook can influence the ability to develop the
communicative skills of the students.
To determine how Facebook helps to the students to improve their
communication skills
1.3.2 Specific objectives

To determine the motives that drives students to use Facebook

To know if the students interact with speakers of English
To find out if the students spend a lot of time on this site
y
To analyse how the use of Facebook can influence writing in English in the use
of correct grammar.
To determine if the use of Facebook has incidence in the ability in speaking and
listening in English.
To discover if the use of Facebook affects the reading in English learning
1.4 Justification
This research is important because it contributes to use new methodologies

taking advantage on Facebook how is the most popular social media and it is

frequently visited by the students that spend so much time and they have the

possibility to interact with English speakers, they have the opportunity to

improve communication skills achieving a level of proficiency suitable.

PART TWO

2.1Theoretical framework

2.1.1Theoretical and conceptual focus

According Melor etal.(2012) revealted that Facebook can be embedded in

writing activity as the students use the features in Facebook to learn new

vocabulary by reading the comments of the other students in the group,

discussion in getting ideas for writing and spell-check by peers. The study

provided information about how Facebook helps to complete essays easier by

participating in the group discussion.

According to Kho and Chuah (2012) in a study that did on Encouraging ESL

Discourse Exchange via Facebook and its result recommended that the

teachers incorporate the teaching and learning activity with online social

networks such as Facebook in order to create an environment more fun and the

students can interact. From the study the students involved actively in

exchanging ideas or opinions through Facebook compared traditional

classroom, also the students claimed that the use of Facebook helped them to

improve their vocabulary by reading the comments by their friend in the group.
Promnitz-Hayashi (2011), realized a study on the use of Facebook increase

students motivation and language output. It provides more autonomous learning

experiences students gained confidence how effect on their in class

interactions.

Kabilan at al.(2010) reported that students believe their language skills

increased through using Facebook, and further, their motivation, confidence,

and attitude enhanced concerning language learning. This study indicates that

when the Facebook is utilized effectively, it can help to students to build

confidence, which students feel a great motivation to learn a second language.

2.1.1 Epistemology of the study

The epistemology of the study is positivistic and phenomenological. This study

is based on a quantitative approach to quantify data and generalize results from

a sample population of interest, also measure the incidence of various views

and opinions in a chosen sample.

2.2 Structure

CHAPTER ONE

Unidad Educativa Bernardo Valdivieso

2.1.1History

Vision

Be a reference for scientific, social and humanistic education; with continuous

methodological and pedagogical innovations, in which communication,

research, theory and practice are merged; to offer with quality and warmth
training with ethical and moral values, contributing to personal and country

development.

Mission

The Bernardo Valdivieso Educational Unit is a secular institution that welcomes

children and youth, to provide an inclusive education, quality and warmth,

educating citizens with high academic standards, integrity, inquirers, reflective,

critical, competent and enterprising, with great ideals and solid convictions

capable of inserting themselves into national and international higher education

and / or the world of work, through of the action of quality teachers and

committed to building a new just and equitable society that consolidates the

national educational project.

CHAPTER TWO

2.1 Concept

2.1.1 Importance of Facebook in Education

2.2.2 Elements of Facebook

2.2.3 How to use Facebook in education

2.2 Advantages of Facebook

2.2.1 Disadvantages of Facebook

CHAPTER THREE

The English learning

3.1 English Learning

3.1.1 Definition

3.1.2 Principles
3.1.3 Concepts

3.2 Skills

3.2.1 Reading

3.2.2 Writing

3.2.3 Listening

3.2.4 Speaking

3.3 Abilities

3.3.1 Use of vocabulary

3.3.2 Use of grammar

3.3.3 Fluency

3.3.4 Pronunciation

3.3.5 Text comprehension

CHAPTER FOUR

FACEBOOK AND THE LEARNING

4.1 Use of Facebook for the speaking skill

4.2 Use of Facebook for the writing skill.

4.3 Use of Facebook for the Reading skill

4.4 Use of Facebook for the Listening skill

CHAPTER FIVE

Other causes of the core problem

5.1 Old fashioned methodologies

5.2 Poor innovation in teaching
5.3Unfavorable educational context
5.4 Lack of resources materials and technology

2.3 Hypothesis system

2.3.1. Working hypothesis

Usage of Facebook has a positive effect on English Language Learning

2.3.3. Null hypothesis

Usage of Facebook has a negative effect on English Language Learning

PART THREE
METHODOLOGICAL DESIGN

3.1. Type and research design

This research is applied, descriptive and of field. The technique for collecting
data is the survey. The study is quantitative and transversal. Questionnaires will
be distributed to the respondents in face to face survey in the each classroom.

3.2. Population and sample size

The study will survey 100 students attending the Ninth year of Basic Education
at Unidad Educativa Bernardo Valdivieso, in Loja City Province of Loja, during
the first quimestre, 2017-2018

3.3. Field work

First of all, we have to ask the head-master the authorization for applying a
research survey to the students. Data will collect by physical surveys. This
surveys consist of 10 questions will be developed to investigate the effect of
Facebook usage in the English learning for students. The survey will be
distribute among students in mid-January, 2018. Then a total of 100 surveys will
be collected in late January, 2018 for the final data collection and data analysis.
Students will require to 5 to ten minutes to complete the survey.

3.4. Instruments for data collection

The instrument for gathering data will be the survey students which will have
multiple choice and no more than three open questions.

3.5. Processing and analysis

Quantitative data will be tabulated and compared by using SPSS software.
Measures of descriptive statistics will be used such as percentages, rates,
mean, variance and standard deviation.

3.6. Research Validity and reliability

Reliability is a measure of the consistency of scores over time and there are two
types: reliable across time that is if the same researcher would get the same
results if he or she did the same study at a different time; and reliable across
samples is when we get the same results in different groups.

In validity there are internal and external validity. The first one makes sure that
the cause-effect relationship identified in the study is really there, and there are
no other explanations for the results. The second one is about the bigger,
outside world, the results can be generalized beyond the immediate study.

Then, this study is reliable across samples, internal and external validity.

PART FOUR
ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK

4.1. Material resources

Personal computer
Printer
Printer Ink
Sheet of paper A4
Office supplies
Internet
Copies

4.2. Human resources

Research advisor
Head-masters school
Students
Teachers
4.3. Budget

ITEM QUANTITY UNIT COST TOTAL COST

Personal computer 2 US$ 600 US$ 1200

Printer 1 US$ 150 US$ 150

Printer Ink 4 US$ 10 US$ 40
Sheet of paper A4 1 ream of paper US$ 4 US$ 4

Office supplies Various US$ 10 US$ 10

Internet For two Months US$ 30 per month US$ 60

Copies 200 US$ 0.05 US$ 10
Research advisor 1 US$ 200 US$ 200
TOTAL: US$ 1674.00

4.4. Timetable
 Months 1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

Weeks

Activities

Planning X X

Bibliography X
acquisition

Bibliography analysis X X

Organize info X X
(complete outline)

Project approval X

Instrument design X X

Instrument X X X
application / data
collection

Data X
tabulation/analysis

Graphing info X

Writing 1st draft X X

Revision/correction X X
of 1st draft

Writing 2nd draft X X

Revision/correction X X
final draft

Thesis approved X

Present and defend X

thesis
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GLOSSARY

Research: to study a subject in detail, especially in order to discover new

information or reach a new understanding

Epistemology: the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods,

validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes
justified belief from opinion.

Population: a complete set of element (persons or objects) that possess some

common characteristics defined by the sampling criteria established by
researcher

Hypothesis: a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for

the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely
as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation or accepted as highly probable
in the light of established facts.
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