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Nama Pengarang : Melor Md Yunus Sutasini Sivagnanam Affendi Hamat Nurazimah Aziz

Sakinah Zakaria Melor Md Yunus Haslinda Abu Hassan Harwati Hashim

Ashairi Suliman ( Universiti Melor md Yunus

Kebangsaan Malaysia)
( Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia)
2020 2019
2020
Tahun Terbitan : Use of Social Media
2019 Utilizing Social Media for Informal Language
in Vocabulary Learning by Using Social Media to
The Potential Use of Enhance ESL Writing
Tajuk: Enhancement among
social media on Malaysian University Skill among Gen-Z
Primary ESL Learners
Malaysian Primary Students Learners
Students to Improve
Writing Universal Journal of 3L: The Southeast
Asian Journal of
Educational Research
Volume Journal: International Journal of English Language
8(2): 490-498, 2020
Education and Practice Studies – Vol 25(4): 68
No Journal : http://www.hrpub.org 8 pages
2019 Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. – 83
DOI:10.13189/ujer.20
450-45 English as a Second
20.080220
Language (ESL) in
Malaysia faces many
Mukasurat 9 pages 9 pages challenges due to
multicultural and
environmental factors
such as lack of
interactive speaking
environment, lack of
exposure, and
unconvincing of
teaching and learning
method. Moreover,
the evolutions of the
generations contribute
a great impact to the
changes in our
education sector
especially in terms of
teaching and learning
process

reviews the needs of

Gen Z that would be
essential in
contributing to a
successful teaching
and learning method
in ESL lesson. This
paper also discusses
further about the
strategies utilised by
 successful language
learner among Gen Z
which is the use of
social media as a
medium of interaction
in enhancing writing
skill

There wasn’t any The question is This was to discover

experimental study on whether Malaysian whether or not
Pernyataan Masalah how to utilize social students use their medical EFL learners
media in learning.
SNSs for any informal improve their English
Most studies language learning language
conducted focuses on activities and whether
students,academic proficiency through
they perceive these as
performance,motivati contributing to their social media usage.
on using mixed Moreover, it also
proficiency in the
method
language. questioned whether
research,quantative
with quasi- gender influences
experimental and students’ views on
qualitative.
social media use and,
consequently, their
academic
performance

Tujuan/Objektif Investigate the potential Investigate how pupils Investigate on the present study
kajian use of social media in utilize social media to whether Malaysian aimed at examining
 improving the writing skill improve their university students social media
among primary students vocabulary and think SNSs are helpful
possible challenges for learning English usage in improving
faced English language
and language
proficiency proficiency from the
viewpoint of medical
students

among Ethiopian
public university
students.

Kajian Literatur & Stated: Stated indirectly in

kerangka konseptual introduction:
kajian Tandale and Raman,2016
Yunus, et. al.
Technology evolves,
many innovators and Students spend a
educators join in considerable amount
searching for more of time in using social
solutions to close the gap media to scan
of knowledge and skills information, socialize,
beyond region, time, gain knowledge and
space and boundaries for entertainment
purposes.

Students are working

Yunus and Salehi, 2012 towards gaining
ICT includes a variety of knowledge
technologies used to independently
communicate, create,
disseminate and manage
information effectively
Hunt and Beglar,
Pempek ,2013
Incidental vocabulary
Social media learning is a useful
corporations are playing a way to acquire
huge and influential role vocabularies for
providing decision- advanced learners
making in the events of
the international arena Intentional/explicit
learning is highly
economically, politically,
socially and educationally important for
beginners.
Majid and Stapa,2017
Faizi, Afia and
Facebook as scaffolding Chiheb,2013
revealed that enabled
secondary students in Social media provides
a huge amount of
rural area to learn better
and improve their writing material on a wide
range of subjects.
process and writing
performance. Students can
therefore turn to any
tools for further
explanations or
Kimmerle,2015 clarifications.
Writing tasks happening 17
among teachers and
students on social media; Helps learners to
the teaching and learning
and teaching pedagogy
are in the continuous
approach when using
social networking tools
The introduction of social
media in learning
contexts often has its
own disagreement in
aligning to the
constructivist learning
theories
Sweeny ,2010
Writing is an integral part
of students‟ lives due to
their use of texting and
social networking sites,
but most students do not
recognize this type of
communication as
writing.
Meyer,2002
Allowing groups to build
knowledge via
collaborating and
cooperating with others is
access information
and have control over
their learning
Mensah and Nizam
Social Media has a
significant impact on
students’ academic
performance in
Malaysian tertiary
institutions
Hairell et. al [14],
Some common
strategies to build
vocabulary reported in
empirical research
such as repeated
exposure
Alqahtani [27] and
Tehranian [28]
Believe vocabulary
learning is an integral
part of language
pedagogy and it is an
indispensable part of
a significant component language learning
of constructivist-based
online teaching and Theory implied:
learning Krashen’s Second
Yunus and Salehi, 2012 Language Acquisition
Theory:
Found that students felt Comprehensible input
their motivation and hypothesis
confidence improve
through participating in L2 learners acquire
language when they
activities on Facebook
are provided with
comprehensible input

Bytheway[34]

Believes that many

language learners use
computer games as
informal learning
context

Pupils are more

confident and
motivated to learn
 vocabulary when using
social media as it
creates an
environment that
does not involve face-
to-face interaction

Metodologi: A descriptive survey

design was employed
Rekabentuk kajian: Mixed method : Quantitative since the purpose of
quantitative and this study was to
qualitative
Persampela Purposive sampling/53 gain detail information
47 primary pupils/rural about social media
n : area/Negeri Sembilan primary pupils/10
years old/Negeri usage in improving
Sembilan. English language
proficiency

from the viewpoint of

Instrumentasi: Questionnaire : Questionnaire medical students.
Hence, the
 Survey
researchers intended
 Open-ended
to use a quantitative
questions
Kaeda approach. This is
h Analisis data: Data collections were
because a quantitative
presented in percentage
methodology helps
tables
researchers calculate
the results
 more easily and avoid
the difficulties which a
qualitative approach
might entail

Keputusan/ Dapatan Most respondents have Pupils utilize features Areas of proficiency The reports obtained
kajian access to social media on social media as an that benefitted the from respondents
and they perceived social effective way to learn most from their use of showed that social
vocabulary.
media as beneficial for SNSs are writing, media (SM) platforms
the ESL educators and communication,
Learners vocabulary have many advantages
Social media acts as a in improving medical
development and
Encourages constructive motivating factor for reading. learners’ English
learning environment. primary ESL learners understanding in the
to learn vocabulary.
Grammar as well as process
listening and speaking
of EFL learning. It
benefitted the least
positively affects them
in improving their
level of English
proficiency.

Gender not only

influenced the attitude
of students in using
social media for
learning English

but also improved

their proficiency in the
process of language
 learning. Even if
gender

differences exist in
nature, significant
differences in the
viewpoint of male and
female

students regarding
social media (SM)
usage in enhancing
their English
proficiency were

not observed. The

majority of the
respondents strongly
agreed that social
media use plays

a dominant role in
improving English
proficiency

Perbincangan/ Social media could be Using social media to

Implikasi kajian enhanced as a form of develop vocabulary
integrating teaching into has received positive
learning and engaging feedback
younger age group.
It is an interactive tool
 creating the online that helps ESL learners
writing activities and to learn
authentic networking subconsciously.
built among younger
pupils, teachers and Computer applications
here can be used as a
parents.
supplement in order
Use of ICT and social to improvise the
media converts teaching traditional teaching
and learning into a and learning method.
constructive learning
environment.

Other implications may

include online threats,
lack of accessibility and
other factors.

Cadangan kajian To examine the actual Suggestion would be The results presented
lanjutan impact of social media in to increase the a much needed, and
enhancing writing skills number of currently lacking, view
among younger primary respondents and focus into the actual utility
ESL students on selected parts of and use of SNSs for
social media rather the
than a general study
purpose of informal
and look into the
teachers’ point of view learning of English
among students in
in using Social media
as a medium of Malaysian universities
 instruction

Komen/Analisis