The effects of social media on english department students' speaking proficiency
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- Nowadays, technology development enables students to learn wherever and whenever they want to. Social media have been used not only for socializing but also learning. Previous studies (Chandrella, 2019; Desta et al., 2021; Mismara, 2019; Poramathikul et al., 2020) have shown social media effects on English speaking proficiency of students outside English major (high schoolers and non-English major students). This present study aimed to analyze the effects of social media on English Department students’ speaking proficiency. The study used survey research to describe English Department students’ opinion and illustrate their preference on using social media. A questionnaire was distributed to collect the data and semy structured interviews were conducted as triangulation where triangulators could explore their ups and downs of using social media to improve their English competence. The findings show social media platform frequently use are YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. From questionnaire results, some students are active users (posting, commenting, sharing, reacting) while others prefer being passive (only watching). Students develops their speaking proficiency since they subconsciously get to know new vocabularies, sentence structure (grammar), ideas of content, pronunciation of words they rarely heard, and practice their speaking fluency. Based on the interviewees’ lived experience, it is shown how social media enable the participants to engage in communication since it is a fun activity so they are encouraged to explore more. With that being said, social media also give model as speaking learning source. In conclusion, it is proven that social media affects English Department students’ English speaking proficiency.