臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

本研究為研究英語系大學生使用社群網站以其對英語學習之啟示。隨著科技日新月異，使用電腦中介溝通工具建立及維持個人的社群網路已經是一種趨勢。社群網站是取得各種議題和領域之新聞資訊的來源。本研究使用訪談法做為研究方法，並且將英語系大學生做為訪談研究對象。結果顯示學生將維持個人社群網路為使用社群網站之主要目的。學生表示使用社群網站閱讀符合興趣之英文文本是有趣、能引發動機的。學生藉由使用社群網站學習到英文口語用法以及單字。至於關於老師使用社群網站方面，學生希望看到老師以個人身分使用社群網站和學生交流。

The goal of this research is to study the use of social network sites by Taiwanese university students of English major and the implication for using social network sites in English learning. Over the last decades, the technological advancements in computer and the Internet led to success of numerous tools of CMC, and with their increasing popularity it has become a trend to construct and maintain one’s social networks using social network sites. Social network sites can also be a source of gaining news and information of various topics and fields. The methodology used for this research was interviewing in the general interview guide approach. Students of English major were chosen as the participants of the research. The result showed that the participants used social network sites mainly for their social networks. Besides, it was found that it is motivational to read news and information in English of their interested topics on social network sites. The participants mentioned that they learned spoken language and vocabularies on the use of social network sites. As for the use of social network sites by teachers, the majority of participants like to see teachers interact with them as individuals.

COVER PAGE
ENGLISH SIGNATURE PAGE
SIGNATURE PAGE
AbSTRACT...iv
CHINESE ABSTRACT...v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...vi
TABLE OF CONTENTS...vii
LIST OF TABLES...ix
LIST OF FIGURES...x

Chapter I. Introduction...1
1.1 Research Background...1
1.2 Research Purpose and Questions...4
1.3 Limitations of the Study...7

Chapter II. Literature Review...9
2.1 New Media...9
2.2 Computer Mediated Communication (CMC)...11
2.2.1 Characteristics and Features of CMC...12
2.2.2 Traditional Vehicles of CMC on the Internet...18
2.2.3 Vehicles of CMC on the Internet in the age of Web 2.0...21
2.3 Social Network Sites...23
2.3.1 Characteristics and Features of Social Network Sites...23
2.3.2 History of Social Network Sites...29
2.4 Socializing on the Internet in Taiwan...30
2.5 CMC, Social Network Service and Foreign Language Learning...37

Chapter III. Methodology...43
3.1 Research Method...43
3.2 Participants...44
3.3 Instrumentation...44
3.4 Procedures...45

Chapter IV. Data Analysis and Results...48
4.1 Background of the Participants...48
4.2 Use of Social Network Sites...49
4.3 Social Network Sites and English Learning...56
Chapter V. Discussion and Conclusion...61
5.1 Discussion of the Results...61
5.2 Conclusion...65
5.3 Limitations...66
5.4 Suggestions for Further Research...67

References...69
Chinese References...75
Appendix A Interviewee Profile Sheet...77
Appendix B Interview Script...78
Appendix C Interview Questions...80

Alexa. (2010a). Google.com Site Info. Retrieved October 14, 2010, from
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/google.com

Alexa. (2010b). Facebook.com - Site Info from Alexa. Retrieved April, 30, 2010, from http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/facebook.com

Alexa. (2010c). Top Sites in Taiwan. Retrieved May, 14, 2010, from http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/TW

Alexa. (2010d). Wretch.cc - Site Info from Alexa. Retrieved May, 5, 2010, from http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wretch.cc

Alexa. (2010e). Youtube.com - Site Info from Alexa. Retrieved April, 11, 2010, from http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/youtube.com

Barnes, Susan B. (2003). Computer-mediated communication: human-to-human
communication across the internet. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

BBC (2003). Microsoft chatrooms close. Retrieved October, 16, 2010, from
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3189362.stm

Blood, R. (2000). weblogs: a history and perspective. Retrieved March, 10, 2010, from http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html

Bush, M. D. (1997). Technology-Enhanced Language Learning. Illinois: National Textbook Company

Chansanchai, A. (2011). Only a quarter of Facebook's 600 million users are in U.S. Retrieved February, 28, from http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/11/ 6032824-only-a-quarter-of-facebooks-600-million-users-are-in-us

boyd, d (2006). Friends, Friendsters, and MySpace Top 8: Writing Community Into Being on Social Network Sites. First Monday 11(12).

boyd, d, & Ellison, N.(2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship.
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11.

Brown, B., & Bell, M. (2004). CSCW at play: ”There” as a collaborative virtual
environment. In Proceedings of CSCW’, pp.350-359.

Carter, L. (2008). Web could collapse as video demand soars. Retrieved April, 11, 2010, from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584230/
Web-could-collapse-as-video-demand-soars.html

Computer Industry Almanac Incorporation. (2009). Computer Industry Almanac-Press
Release. Retrieved July, 1, 2010, from http://www.c-i-a.com/pr0509.htm

Crocker, D. (1996). Who Invent Email, How Email Was Invented. Retrieved February 9, 2010, from http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ei.htm

Dalton, A. (2009). Teaching and learning through social networks. Retrieved August 3, 2010, from http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/ teaching-learning-through-social-networks

decentralization. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved October 13, 2010, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/decentralization

DiNucci, D. (1999). Fragmented Future. Retrieved Match, 25, 2010, from
http://www.cdinucci.com/Darcy2/articles/Print/Printarticle7.html

Ellison, N. B., Steinfield, C., & Lampe, C. (2007). The benefits of Facebook "friends:" Social capital and college students' use of online social network sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(4), article 1.

Fischer, C. (1982). To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Network in Town and City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Foxnews (2009). Twitter Links Iran Protesters to Outside World. Retrieved October, 20, 2010, from http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526403,00.html

Grotevant, H. D. (1998). Adolescent development in family contexts. In W. Damon & N. Eisenberg (Eds.), Handbook of Child Psychology; Vol. 3: Social, Emotional, and Personality Development, 5th ed. (pp. 1097-1149). New York: Wiley.

Junco, R. (2011). Social Media in High Education: Dr. Rey Junco’s Blog. Retrieved May, 17, 2011, from http://blog.reyjunco.com/

Lamy, M-N. & Hapel, R. (2007). Online Communication in Language Learning and Teaching. New York: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN


Leh, A. S. C. (1999). Computer-Mediated Communication and Foreign Language Learning via Electronic Mail. Retrieved August, 3, 2010, from http://imej.wfu.edu/articles/1999/2/08/index.asp

Lister, M., Dovey, J., Giddings, S., Grant, I. & Kelly, K. (2003). New media: a critical
introduction (2nd ed.). London: Routledge

Marx, G. (1999). What's in a name? Some reflections on the sociology of anonymity. The Information Society, 15 (2), 99-112.

Meyrowitz, J. (1985). No sense of place. New York: Oxford University Press.

Murugesan, S. (2007). Understanding Web 2.0. IT Professional, 9(4), 34-41.

Ning (2010). Ning in Education. Retrieved August, 3, 2010, from http://education.ning.com/

Nelson, Theodor H. (1965). Complex information processing: a file structure for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate. ACM/CSC-ER Proceedings of the 1965 20th nationalconference.

Nicovich, S. G., Boller, G. W., and Cornwell, T. B. (2005). Experienced presence within computer-mediated communications: Initial explorations on the effects of gender with respect to empathy and immersion. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(2), article 6.

Patton, Q. M. (2001). Qualitative research and evaluation methods (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Popa, B. (2007). Facebook User Banned for Using Nickname Instead of Real Name - Jon Swift now allowed on Facebook -Softpedia-. Retrieved November 15, 2010, from http://news.softpedia.com/news/
Facebook-User-Banned-For-Using-Nickname-Instead-Of-Real-Name-69834.shtml

Prensky, M. (2001). Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. On the Horizon, 9(5), 1-15

Raynes-Goldie, K. & Fono, D. (2005). Hyperfriendship and Beyond: Friendship and
Social Norms on Livejournal. Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR-6)

Thomas, M. (2009). Handbook of Research on Web 2.0 and Secound Language Learning. Pennsylvania: Information Science Reference

Tong, S. T., Van Der Heide, B., Langwell, L., & Walther, J. B. (2008). Too Much of a Good Thing? The Relationship Between Number of Friends and Interpersonal Impressions on Facebook. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(3), 531-549.

Stewart, B. (1996). World Wide Web History, Who Invented the Web, How the Web Was Invented. Retrieved June 28, 2010, from http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi.htm

Vanden Boogart, M. R. (2006). Uncovering the social impact of Facebook on a college campus (unpublished master’s thesis). Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Retrieved July 5, 2007 from http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstream/2097/181/1/
MatthewVandenBoogart2006.pdf

Walther, J. B., Van Der Heide, B., Kim, S., Westerman, D., & Tong, S. T. (2008). The role of friends’ behavior on evaluations of individuals’ Facebook profiles: Are we known by the company we keep? Human Communication Research, 34, 28–49.

Wankel, C. (2011). Educating Educators with Social Media. UK: Emerald Group Publishing

Warschauer, M. (1995). Virtual connections: Online Activities & Projects for Networking Language Learners. Honolulu, Hawaii: Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Warschauer, M. (1996). Motivational aspects of using computers for writing and communication. In M. Warschauer (Ed.), Telecollaboration in foreign language learning (pp. 29-46). Honolulu, HI: Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center (University of Hawai'i Press). Retrieved July, 26, 2010 from http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/NetWorks/NW01/

Wellman, B., Salaff, J., Dimitrova, D., Garton, L., Gulia, M., & Haythornthwaite, C. (1996). Computer networks as social networks: Collaborative work, telework, and virtual community. Annual Review of Sociology, 22, 213-238.

Wells, J., Nardi, A., Pytlik, E., Shaw, D. & Walls, R. (2004). An Analysis of
Computer-Mediated Communication Technologies as Tools to Enhance Learning (Doctoral dissertation, West Virginia University). Retrieved from: http://wvuscholar.wvu.edu:8881//exlibris/dtl/d3_1/apache_media/L2V4bGlicmlzL2R0bC9kM18xL2FwYWNoZV9tZWRpYS83MTcz.pdf

Yee, N. (2006). The demographics, motivations and derived experiences of users of massively-multiuser online graphical environments. PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 15, 309-329.

Yuan, L. & Buckman, R. (2006, April 4). Social networking goes mobile: MySpace, Facebook strike deals with cell companies. The Wall Street Journal, p. D1.

Yuen, S. (2008). Social Networks in Education. Retrieved August, 4, 2010, from http://scyuen.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/social-networks-in-education/

Zhang, L. & Tu, W. Q. (2009). Six Degrees of Separation in Online Society. In: Proceedings of the WebSci'09: Society On-Line, 18-20 March 2009, Athens, Greece.

Mr. Friday (2009)。Facebook爆紅對台灣網友的意義是？〈一〉
──『上班偷菜』
的真正意涵。線上檢索日期：2011年4月25日，網址：
http://mmdays.com/2009/10/22/
facebook_in_taiwan_vol_1/

Tu, C. L. 杜建龍 (2010)。探討社群網路與悅趣式學習於科技大
學之教學研究-以Facebook平台為例。育達商業科技大學資訊管理所碩士論文，未出版，苗栗縣。

Lin, C. S. 林群盛 (2004)。一條寬頻線牽起的千里姻緣。線上檢
索日期：2010年10月20日，網址：　http://mag.udn.com/mag/
digital/printpage.jsp?f_ART_ID=88666

Chou, H.F. 周恆甫 (2005)。台灣地區網路媒體Blog發展與應用
之初探研究－以「交通大學無名小站」為例。國立台灣藝術大
學應用媒體藝術研究所碩士論文，未出版，台北縣。

財團法人台灣網路資訊中心 (2010)。2010年　　
　　台灣寬頻網路使用調查報告。線上檢索日期：2010年5月5
日，網址 ：http://www.twnic.net.tw/
download/200307/1001e.pdf

創市際 (2009)。ARO觀察：社群網站正熱門，facebook近6個月
到達率成長12%。線上檢索日期：2010年5月10日，網址：　　
　　http://news.ixresearch.com/?p=337

創市際 (2009)。研究案例: 網路交友管道與動機篇。線上檢索日
期：2010年5月11日，網址：
http://news.ixresearch.com/?p=465

創市際 (2010)。創市際月刊報告書－2010/05。線上檢索日期：2010
年7月8日，網址：
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0By5gVRH3imwa
　 ZTM4ZDUwMTktNWZmMi00OWE5LTg5Y2ItMGYxNGIwZDVlMj
Ay&hl=en