BENEFITS OF FACEBOOK IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO ADULT LEARNERS
The article is devoted to the study of the advantages of using the electronic social network Facebook in the process of teaching a foreign language to adult learners. The interpretation of the concept "community in an electronic social network" is given, as well as the author's definition of the concept "electronic social network" in the context of methods of teaching foreign languages. The article summarizes the results of studying the problem of using social networks in adult foreign language learning. The main features of the social network in the context of methods of teaching a foreign language are described in comparison with the other tools of the Web 2.0 era. The role of the social network Facebook in the development of autonomous adult learning activity whilestudying a foreign language is shown. Much attention is paid to the description of the factors that allow the teacher of a foreign language to simplify the process of forming the autonomy of adult ESL learners.