Classroom activities for Chilean high school students through the use of social networking sites

Abstract

In the last decade, the popularity of Social Networks has changed people’s lifestyle and the way they interact with society. For this reason, the education sector has to take these networks into account as possible tools for the study and teaching of English as a second language. This project pretends to provide an updated and useful tool with the necessary information to allow teachers of any high school level with access to a computer laboratory and a high speed Internet connection to use social networks in the classroom with activities close to students’ everyday experience and of a variable complexity, achieving in that way an interaction with the English language.