How is Instagram Implemented in Teaching Speaking?

DOI

10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.288How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Instagram; social media; speaking; teaching speaking

Abstract

Nowadays, social media become a necessity for people to interact, collaborate, and share resources with other people in any part of the world. And it can be denied that the users are almost from students. One of popular social media is Instagram which enables its users to take, share, and comment the content (e.g. photo and video) they have made. This phenomenon is of course can be a great opportunity in the field of education. Due to this reason, the researchers conducted a study which has aims at describing the perception of students toward the use of Instagram in learning English especially speaking and finding the influence of Instagram in improving students’ speaking skill. In collecting data, the researchers used questionnaires, observations, and structured interviews. The collecting data then are analyzed by using Interactive Model consisting of data collection, data reduction, display data, and drawing conclusion. Findings of the study indicate that the majority of students tend to have positive perceptions toward the use of Instagram in speaking class. Furthermore, there was improvement of students’ speaking skill after been taught by using Instagram.

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© 2019, 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  - Elvira Rosyida M. R.
AU  - Seftika Seftika
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - How is Instagram Implemented in Teaching Speaking?
BT  - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 386
EP  - 388
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.288
DO  - 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.288
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