Based on the observation of the BBC English language learning group on the social
network Facebook, we conducted a descriptive documentary research on the functioning of
groups for English language learning in this social network. We intend to raise the
contributions and limitations of this resource to the classroom - or beyond it. We live in the
age of digital communication, in which children are digital natives (PRENSKI, 2001) and
can easily navigate on web 2.0. Not to link the teaching-learning process to digital
technologies would be to stagnate education. Going into the context of children and young
people promoting multiliteracies (ROJO, 2014; COPE; KALANTZIS, 2000) is
transformative and motivating for students who are often in standardized classes carried out
only on the blackboard and/or with textbooks followed to the letter. By choosing the social
network Facebook, we observe the autonomous, but also collaborative modes of learning
groups, emphasizing the possibilities of learning anywhere, approaching the current reality
of the students, making the virtual environment also a pedagogical apparatus; thus thinking
about the teaching-learning process at hand beyond the classroom, providing flexibility of
time and place in mobile and ubiquitous learning.
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