A STUDY ON STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO LEARN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
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- This study focuses on the use of social media for learning English as a foreign language. The purpose of this study is to find out students’ perception of social media which are used to learn English, what type of social media which students mostly use to learn English, and how students use social media to learn English. To address the research questions, this study used mixed method approach. To obtain the quantitative data, the writer distributed 130 online questionnaires to students in Faculty of Language and Arts Soegijapranata Catholic University Semarang. The quantitative data were used to collect students’ perception. In supporting the quantitative data, the writer interviewed two sophomores, two juniors, and a senior. The qualitative data were aimed at getting in-depth information about how students used social media to learn English and what type of social media which they used mostly to learn English. The result of the study showed that students had positive perception on the use of social media to learn language skills. They reported that they mostly used Instagram and YouTube to learn English as their foreign language. The findings of this study also suggested that lecturers had an important part in their learning process even though they already learned a lot of lessons from social media. Keywords: social media, Instagram, YouTube, language learning