Efl Secondary School Students’ Perception Of Using Social Media As Media For English Language Learning

Abstract

Social media has been massively used for learning English autonomously in EFL context. However, there are still limited studies focusing on the learners’ perception. Thus, this study aims to identify secondary school students’ perception on the use of social media for English Language Learning. A survey was conducted by distributing a questionnaire to assess the use of YouTube, Instagram and TikTok to 130 high school students. The questionnaire used adapted from Aloraini & Cardoso (2022) and consist of two section: perceived usefulness and affective feeling of social media usage and language purposes of social media usage. The results of the first section show that most respondents confirmed that YouTube is the easiest application to use with the highest mean result of 5.62 and the standard deviation of .781. In addition, the majority of respondents also confirmed that TikTok is not a friendly learning environment because the results obtained only had a mean of 3.87 and a standard deviation of 1.507, making it the one that got the lowest mean in the first section. In the second section, the results show that the majority of respondents most frequently use Instagram for reading, which can be seen from the lowest mean of 2.12 and the standard deviation of 1.324. Respondents also confirmed that YouTube is a platform that is least frequently used for writing with a high mean result of 4.58 and a standard deviation of 1.402. However, the nature of most respondents who tend to be passive instead of active users of social media presented a gap of the practice of language learning itself. Therefore, guidance from teachers is needed to be able to combine the use of social media for English language learning into the another media and which is supported by great instructional design.