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This study is performed to show the effects of Facebook in French language instruction as a tool. It seeks to analyze the activities of using Facebook in a position of learning French. To conduct this study, we set up a Facebook group with 23 students in French Preparatory Program and three teachers who lead the program in the Department of Translation and Interpreting, Faculty of Letters and Sciences, University of Mersin, in the study period 2014-2015 fall semester. This closed group, teachers shared topics of their courses, images, writings, videos and they want their students to answer to their questions in the group. The students are also participated to the activities making comments under the sharing, giving answers to asked questions, making themselves sharing on this platform. The course announcements were also shared in the group. Moreover, in the current application portion exemplary, extracts the students' work were made anonymous to protect the right to privacy. For the protection of the names and photos profiles have hidden. In the period of the application, the observation technique was used. At the end of the application a student survey was submitted as part of the copy of this study. For the analysis of survey data the content analysis technique was used.

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