Social Medias, Zoom and Microsoft Teams: the New Technologies in French Language Classrooms in the Jordanian Context during the Covid-19

The Covid-19 has had a significant impact on teaching/learning processes around the world. As a result, education practitioners in Jordan and elsewhere have had to adapt quickly and switch to distance education: social media, including Facebook, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. Social networks play an indispensable role in teaching/learning French as a Foreign Language, while providing a wide range of authentic materials. They make it easy for students to interact and provide the opportunity to discover online tools to develop their skills. Internet and all other forms of computer-mediated communication help learners to accelerate their acquisition, while being up-to-date and independent. However, as a result of our feedback from the field, it turned out that Zoom and Microsoft Teams play an important role in all kinds of interactions between teacher and students and between students themselves. These two applications allow a live interaction; as the classroom is virtual, participants will have the ability to exchange ideas in a synchronous manner. It is possible to create groups for each given course. In this article, we will try to highlight the positive aspects of using social networks, especially Facebook, to improve the skills of our learners in the French language department at the University of Petra. Then, the use of Zoom will be analyzed. Finally, and based on a theoretical and practical analysis of a group created in Microsoft Teams, the latter will be studied in order to show the positive aspects of any insertion of such an application in the Jordanian context.