Student Perspective in Using Social Media as a Tool in English Language Learning

Ismail, Syofianis and Zaim, M. and Mukhaiyar, Mukhaiyar and Gistituati, Nurhizrah (2018) Student Perspective in Using Social Media as a Tool in English Language Learning. In: Seminar Internasional Conference on Innovation in Education (ICoIE) LPTK 2018, 6 Juli 2018.

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Abstract

Social media has great potential to support student-centered learning as they are flexible, interactive, and resource–rich in nature. One of its drawbacks is the quality of online instruction that lead to unfavorable perception and perspective of the students. The objectives of this research are to analyze the students’ perceptions and perspectives in using Social Media as a tool in English Language learning. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from the students of the English Department, Faculty of Education, Islamic University of Riau. Research finding revealed that social media is very practical and useful for getting general information, knowledge and to increase their language competency

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