THE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON THE USE OF WHATSAPP GROUP FOR PRACTICING ENGLISH

Kristin Rahayu Salwianto

Abstract


Fun learning  situations  will determine the success  of  learning process.  This  research  is conducted to find out the students’ perception on the use of WhatsApp Group for practicing English. The methodology used qualitative method by applying coding of qualitative data. The main instrument of this research is data in the questionaire and interview. This research finds out that there are several benefits of using WhatsApp Group for practicing English. They are: (1) WhatsApp Group can be used as a means of one of the reachable source for practicing English; (2) WhatsApp Group is considered as one of the best media for learning English in a relax and unstressed situation; (3) WhatsApp Group provides partners for practicing students’ English skill in writting that will lead to their reading and speaking skill; (4) WhatsApp Group gives some valuable feedback for teachers in determining students’ error  and  mistake in sentence construction;  and (5)  WhatsApp  Group  enable teacher  to provide direct situation in correcting students’ error and mistake.

 

Keywords: WhatsApp Group, Students’ Perception, teaching media

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