“…communication via social media, office hour and various class activities organized by students), which may help build mutual trust between the two. Moreover, to improve learners' attitude towards FL learning, it may be helpful to remind students that FL learning is not just about language, but about the development of communicative competence which is an agglomerate of linguistic competence, pragmatic, cognitive and affective competence (Li, 1986). In this sense, learning to communicate with different people and building social bonds are part of language learning.…”