Social media in english learning: students reflection on their social presence

Social media is a learning tool commonly used in various learning including English language learning. Learning English with social media requires a social presence that may foster a sense of bonding among the teacher and students. This research aims to understand students’ reflection of social media contribution and social presence contribution to their English learning. This research involved 5 students majoring in the English Teaching Department by interviewing them three times about the social media they used during their English lessons and their reflections on their social media presence. The results showed that students’ reflection of social media contribution is that social media has a big contribution in their English learning such as contributing to providing contents, features, new information, giving the user ability to connect with others, follow any account related English learning and make the user stay updated. Then, students' reflections also show that this social presence is giving a big contribution to their English learning, especially in the learning atmosphere.