The Use of Instagram Platform Toward Junior High School Students' Speaking Ability

摘要

The massive used of social media nowadays has caught much attention from the researcher and practitioner in the education field to integrated this advance technology to support teaching and learning process. Instagram can be used as one of interactive tools of learning English, especially for millennial students. This research aims to investigate the effect of using Instagram as learning media toward their speaking ability. This research was conducted by using quasi experimental design. The result of the study will be expected that Instagram platform give a significance effect toward students' speaking ability since there is a great attention from the students in learning process that can be seen from students' speaking activity by recording the video and uploading into their own Instagram account. The findings of this research are expected to give contribution for teacher to integrated social media into teaching and learning process. Some recommendations are given for teachers and future researchers regarding the use of Instagram to affect students' speaking ability.