THE MERITS OF TWITTERING IN FOSTERING ENGLISH SKILLS: EFL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS
Abstract
English is a language that is almost universally spoken, making it accessible to all people including EFL students from Indonesia and it can be learned anywhere, especially through social media. Twitter is one of the social media that can support EFL students in fostering their English skills. Currently, many people, including EFL students, use Twitter as a social media platform. This study aims to identify EFL students' perceptions of the merits of twittering in fostering English skills. Specifically, this study investigates what English skills are fostered by twittering and what aspects of twittering contribute to fostering English skills based on EFL students' perceptions. This study used a qualitative method and collected data through questionnaires and interviews. The subjects of this study were fifty active Twitter users consisting of twenty-five high school students and twenty-five college students. The questionnaire was conducted first, filled out by fifty respondents, and then from the fifty respondents, five respondents were chosen to be interviewed. This study found that the EFL students perceive that twittering has various merits that support EFL students in fostering their four English skills. Among four English skills, reading skill was the English skill that was perceived as most fostered by twittering. This was due to the merits of twittering in fostering English skills such as reading English tweets, interacting in English, using auto-bases, and tweeting in English. At that point, the aspect that contributed the most to fostering English skills through twittering was reading English tweets. In addition, various features of Twitter could make it easier for students to foster their English skills such as tweet, space and direct message.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.35194/cp.v0i0.3019
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