"Role of Facebook in Enhancing Reading Comprehension among University Students

Abstract

The study aims at investigating the impact of facebook on enhancing the reading comprehension skills among the English language students at the fifth level at the University of Kassala, and to draw the attention to the importance of facebook as a new medium for teaching and education in general. The researcher used the analytical method in this study. The tools used for data collection were the test and the focus group interview. The test was carefully constructed, and then it was distributed among the study subjects which comprised of (10) students of EFL in the fifth level who were purposively selected. The researcher used SPSS (Statistical Packages for Social Sciences) program to analyze the data obtained from the test and the qualitative analysis to analyze the data yielded from the focus group. The study showed that: Facebook has great role on enhancing the skills of reading comprehension of English students in the ways that: It eases reading comprehension and makes it possible; it develops students ability to guess meaning from the context easily; It helps the students to address their difficulties and problems of reading comprehension….etc. It has been proved through the study that facebook is an effective way of teaching reading comprehension and other skills of language. The study recommends that facebook should be authorized as a means of teaching and education in Sudan.