FACEBOOK AS A TOOL FOR ENGLISH LEARNING OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Abstract: This research aims
to find out the students’ perception and their experiences in using
Facebook (FB) as
the tool for
learning English. The subjects
of this research
were senior high
school students who
are active users of
FB. The data
of this case study were
derived from interviews and observation of the students’ activities
on FB. The data showed that all of the 10 FB users agreed that FB can be used
as a tool for English learning. The students
learned English via
FB by writing
their status in
English,commenting their friends’ status in English, replying inbox or
chatting with other country’s friends
by using English, reading
postings in English, joining English
Groups, writing postings
on Pages in English,
writing postings on Groups in
English, commenting pictures or
photos which have English words on them, and sharing links in English
that can be an article, video, song’s
lyric, event, news and many other links as long as they are still in English.
Author: Onten Juliantini, Urai
Salam, Zainal Arifin
Journal Code: jppendidikangg140002
