Educational practitioners have attempted to use online technology such as Facebook (FB) in recent years to incorporate learning into students’ daily social media usage. Past studies have explored FB affordances for in-formal learning, with a lack of investigations on interactive patterns among course participants, especially for learnersin East Asian contexts. To fill the research gap, this study adopts the community of inquiry model (CoI) in an attemptto find out (1) how interactions on a FB Group facilitate theformation of an online learning community in Taiwan, and(2) students’ and teacher’s experiences of using FB Group for English learning. Content analysis of the group page through thematic coding, and Chi Square tests resulted insignificant relations among interaction types, initiationtype, and response type for the posts. Semi-structured in-terviews further yielded more positive than negative ex-periences associated with the FB usage. The results arediscussed in relation to three elements of the CoI, with anindication of a strong teacher presence for fostering theonline learning environment in this particular learning context.

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• Participants’ Experiences and Interactions on Facebook Groupin an EFL Course in Taiwan