USING SOCIAL NETWORK IN ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR MOUNTAINOUS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

The study investigated the use of social network (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram Zalo) as educational tools as well as the influence of the webs in blended learning on English pronunciation teaching and learning activities. The subjects for the study consisted of thirty students who were from class 11A4 at Luc Ngan Number 2 High School located in the Northeast of Vietnam. They were divided into two groups: the experimental group and the traditional classroom group. Besides, there were a teacher from the same school and a retired Canadian teacher to be the subjects for the experimental group. The instruments of data collection were questionnaires, semi-structured interview and pre and post tests. Besides, the received data were analyzed both statistically and descriptively. The findings of the study were activities on social network for English pronunciation and its advantages and disadvantages assessed by the experimental subjects. Furthermore, students’ attitudes/ feedback/ comments towards using social network in blended-learning were collected. In terms of the findings, the study concluded that social network is a potential tool for English pronunciation teaching and learning, and when putting it into blended-learning, the new method handled some limitations in the current learning and teaching of English pronunciation.