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

DOI

10.2991/icoie-18.2019.106How to use a DOI?

Keywords

social media, student, perspective, language

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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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Syofianis Ismail
AU  - M. Zaim
AU  - Mukhaiyar Mukhaiyar
PY  - 2019/01
DA  - 2019/01
TI  - Student Perspective in Using Social Media As a Tool in English Language Learning
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovation in Education (ICoIE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 493
EP  - 497
SN  - 2352-5398
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