STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON THE USE OF ENGLISH VIDEO FROM SOCIAL MEDIA FOR LEARNING ENGLISH
Abstract
Social media is attarcting considerable attention from English learners around the world. Learning
using English videos from social media will give a lots of benefits such as that learning will be
more fun and can also be a way to make the materials more quickly understandable. This research
aimed to find out about the students perception on the advantages of using English videos from
social media for their learning English and also the challanges of using English videos from social
media for their learning English. The researcher used the qualitative research design. To gather the
data for this research, the researcher interviewed three English students in an English Language
Education Department at one of Islamic university in Yogyakarta as the participants on this
research. This research revealed that the advantages of using English videos from social media are
that it could improve vocabulary, pronunciation, and also speaking skills. The challanges of using
English videos from social media include videos which have no subtitles, issues with internet
connection, and videos which have short duration.