My Background of the Study

Recently, technology has influenced the pedagogy of teaching especially in ESL classrooms. With the rapid growth of technology, social network services (SNSs) have spread and become a new addiction among the young people around the world. Social network sites such as Facebook, blogs and Twitter are being used worldwide. It has become one of the most useful tools not only to establish social interactions among individuals but also to enhance the teaching and learning process especially in promoting the students’ writing skills in the ESL classroom. Although SNSs could be one of the interactive tools to help promote students’ writing skills and encourage the learning of English, but there are strengths and weaknesses in integrating its usage in the ESL writing classroom.  In a study conducted by Mohaganeswary & Parilah (2013), the findings discovered that teachers’ attitude towards the use of technology in class is positive whereby the results revealed that 70% of the respondents agree that computer is a valuable tool for them to teach and they completely agree that it will help change the way students learn in class. However, with the advancement of technology, it could lead to some disadvantages that could be the causes of why lecturers do not want to make use technology in their classrooms. According to Melor & Hadi (2012), they stated that the main challenge of integrating technology in the classroom, specifically the use of social network site, such as Facebook is that teachers must be aware of the distractions by other features in the Facebook such as Facebook games, chats and other types of application available through Facebook. We need to adapt and make improvements accordingly to integrate the use of technology in language classrooms so that the teaching and learning process will become more fun and interactive for not only the students but also for the teachers.