Social Media as Massive Open Online Resource (MOOR) and the Performance of Francophones Learning Spoken English in Cameroon: A Case Study Of The Trilingual Students in the Department of Applied Foreign Languages, University Of Dschang
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2016-11Abstract
This paper examines the performances of students using social media like Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Viber, Linked In, and SMS in learning English in the context of multilingual Cameroon.
Social media refers to activities, practices, and behaviors among communities of people who gather
Online to share information, knowledge, and opinions using conversational media to create and easily transmit content in the form of words, pictures, videos, and audios. // Paper ID 148
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