LEARNING ACTIVITIES BASED ON SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM THEORY

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INTERACTION AND STUDENT’S PERFORMANCE

THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA (EPSISM)

NURULHUDA BINTI UMAR

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA

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LEARNING ACTIVITIES BASED ON SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM THEORY
TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INTERACTION AND STUDENT’S PERFORMANCE
THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA (EPSISM)

NURULHUDA BINTI UMAR

A project report submitted in fulfilment of the

requirements for the award of the degree of
Master of Education (Educational Technology)

School of Education
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

FEBRUARY 2021
 ABSTRACT

As language learners in second language context, learning English is deemed

to be difficult for students to master. Because of the low proficiency and lack of
confidence to use the English language, this contribute to low interaction between
student and teacher, student and student as well as interaction towards the learning
content itself. Therefore, concern should be given to this matter in order to increase
student’s proficiency in English language. As for that, through the latest technology
development, this research adopting social media platform as a tool to improve
student’s social interaction in English learning. In a way to improve the potential of
this platform, researcher integrated Social Constructivism Theory by Vygotsky
(1978), in promoting the student’s social interaction that eventually able to improve
student’s performance in the language. According to Karen Swan (2002), social
interaction through online technology supported in three perspectives which are
student-teacher, student-student and student-learning content interactions, while the
student’s performance was evaluated through their writing skill. In this research,
social media Facebook, WhatsApp and Google Meet had been implemented in a
qualitative research design which involved 6 stage 2 primary students that had been
chose through purposive sampling for 5 weeks learning. Observation through video
towards student’s interaction in social media and learning activities as well as
document analysis had been the instruments for data collection in this qualitative
research. From the findings, it shows that learning activities based on Social
Constructivism Theory through social media able to help improving and increasing
the social interaction between student-teacher, student-student as well as student-
learning content which eventually able to improve the student’s performance in
English language. As the conclusion, by integrating social media, it can help to
increase the social interaction not only between teacher and peers, but also towards
the learning content which had contribute to the increasing of performance in English
language.

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