Open AccessTeaching and Learning Using Whatsapp: English Teachers' Perception
Author(s) -
Yusuf Al Arief,
Rizky Amelia,
Eka Puteri Elyani
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jurnal of english education, linguistics, and literature.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2798-0375
DOI - 10.33654/enlit.v1i2.1410
Subject(s) - indonesian , perception , the internet , social media , psychology , descriptive research , mathematics education , qualitative research , medical education , pedagogy , computer science , sociology , world wide web , medicine , linguistics , neuroscience , social science , philosophy
Social media has become part of the lives of Indonesian teenagers today. Referring to a survey conducted by the Indonesian Internet Network Organizing Association (APJII) in 2017, young people dominate the internet users in Indonesia to adults with a percentage of 75.50 % in the age range of 13-18 years, and teachers must deal with this fact. The researchers were interested in using teenagers' addiction to these gadgets to support the learning process. In this study, researchers used descriptive qualitative methods and took English teachers in Banjarmasin as research. The research was conducted by holding social media training, focusing on WhatsApp to learn English. Next, the researchers asked the subjects to use WhatsApp in the teaching and learning process. Next, researchers distributed questionnaires to figure out the perception of teachers. As a result, it was found that: 1) WhatsApp was very useful as a learning medium, 2) Students were motivated to follow the learning process because they used something they like, 3) WhatsApp can also promote more interaction between students.