How is Instagram Implemented in Teaching Speaking?

摘要

Nowadays, social media become a necessity for people to interact, collaborate, and share resources with other people in any part of the world. And it can be denied that the users are almost from students. One of popular social media is Instagram which enables its users to take, share, and comment the content (e.g. photo and video) they have made. This phenomenon is of course can be a great opportunity in the field of education. Due to this reason, the researchers conducted a study which has aims at describing the perception of students toward the use of Instagram in learning English especially speaking and finding the influence of Instagram in improving students' speaking skill. In collecting data, the researchers used questionnaires, observations, and structured interviews. The collecting data then are analyzed by using Interactive Model consisting of data collection, data reduction, display data, and drawing conclusion. Findings of the study indicate that the majority of students tend to have positive perceptions toward the use of Instagram in speaking class. Furthermore, there was improvement of students' speaking skill after been taught by using Instagram.