Social Media for Learning English: The Views of Pre-service EFL Teachers

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10.2991/assehr.k.201230.133How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social media, Pre-service EFL teachers, Learning English, Views

Abstract

Social media can help learning English because the basic principles of social media are in line with language theory which emphasizes collaboration and social interaction in the construction of knowledge. The aims of this study were to find out whether pre-service EFL teachers get the effects of social media to learn English based on their perceptions and on which themes of English they get the most effect. The research method was a cross sectional survey study. A readymade closed-ended questionnaire was used to collect the data. The collected data were analysed by percentages and descriptive statistics. The result showed that 73.07% of the samples perceived high effect of using social media to learn English, 26.7% of them experienced moderate effect and 0.22% of the samples felt low effect. Furthermore, among the six themes, vocabulary development was affected mostly by students’ use of social media to learn English with the highest mean 4.22 and standard deviation 0.68. This study also gave some implications for ELT and further research.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nova Lingga Pitaloka
AU  - Hesti Wahyuni Anggraini
AU  - Armilia Sari
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/02
TI  - Social Media for Learning English: The Views of Pre-service EFL Teachers
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Sriwijaya University Learning and Education International Conference (SULE-IC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 370
EP  - 377
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201230.133
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201230.133
ID  - Pitaloka2021
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