Klasikal: Journal of Education, Language Teaching and Science
Vol 7 No 1 (2025): Klasikal: Journal of Education, Language Teaching and Science

THE USE OF TIKTOK APPLICATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH SPEAKING: STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION

Humairah, Andi Ananda (Unknown)
Mahmud, Murni (Unknown)
Amin, Fatimah Hidayahni (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Apr 2025

Abstract

This research is aimed to find out the students’ perception of using TikTok application in learning English Speaking and identify the impacts of using TikTok application for the students. This research focused on the students’ opinions to obtain data on their perception and response towards the implementation of TikTok in learning English speaking. The research subjects have been selected purposively with 6 students regarding their experiences learning English speaking using TikTok application. This research was conducted using in-depth interview as the instrument of the research using free-guided interview questions. The researcher found that there was various thought of each student, mainly positive than negative. The positive view students perceived are they can obtain new learning materials within a short amount of time, easy to access, and the students don’t have to follow a specific creator to enhance their speaking skills. While the negative perception students concerned are age restriction, unfiltered content, random algorithm, and one-way interaction The impacts are various. It was revealed that the students are able to improve their creativity using TikTok’s contents and obtaining an amount of knowledge in a short time. It is proven that TikTok has benefits for the students’ English learning improvement. Negatively, the impacts that are concerning to the research subjects are TikTok might leads students to addiction, get easily distracted by the contents, may leads to misleading information, and other social media alternative to learn English speaking

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Journal Info

Abbrev

klasikal

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Mathematics Other

Description

Klasikal: Journal of Education, Language Teaching and Science [p-ISSN 2656-9914| e-ISSN 2656-8772] publishes a scientific paper on the results of the study and review of the literature in the sphere of education, language teaching and science in primary education, secondary education and higher ...