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Teaching Writing Through Facebook Part 2

Teaching writing through facebook part 2 discusses about the benefit of using facebook for teaching writing for students whose time is limited. They could be woman who are forbidden to go out from home, professionals whose time is schedule tightly so that they don't have time to learn new language, home schooling students, or students at school whose time allotment for English is limited.

By creating facebook group, people with the same interest can share and build a good environment of communication and it is done in English. Start from the simplest one like saying "hello" to more complicated one like telling the series of past events, which is in theory called recount text The biography is also recount text but everyone in facebook group may also have their own simple biography or daily activity to be told in facebook group.

Every people needs to communicate in order to fulfill their needs or at least communication for social purpose like chatting or discuss the simple or unimportant topic just in order to kill the time and satisfy people's need for social communication. Even for rich man or woman who have fulfilled all of their needs and necessities still need to make social communication.

By using social media like facebook, people can create normal situation to learn language especially in form of writing text although facebook may still have another feature which enables people to communicate orally. Making friends from some English speaking countries is very possible. There will be no boundaries among the member of facebook group to have a meaningful communication.

However, since the purpose of learning language or learning writing through facebook is only for daily need, the writer invite the experts out there to develop facebook into a sophisticated and familiar device or media to learn language or English for specific purposes.