The Students’ Responses of English Instagram Account for English Reading Mastery

Abstract

"Reading" is the process of looking at a set of written symbols and giving them meaning. When we read, we use our eyes to pick up the written symbols (letters, punctuation marks, spaces) and use our brains to turn them into words, sentences, and paragraphs that convey something. In order to master the ability of reading skills effectively in this digital era, English students need to take another learning movement from conventional learning to digital learning. Instagram is one of the digital social media that could be used to learn English. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to find out how the social media instagram along with the content and information about English could influence students’ motivation on English reading from the smallest thing like how to read vocabulary properly. Data was collected using questionare via google form distributed to 20 students at UIN Saizu Purwokerto. In collecting data, researchers used 12 question in questionare which were used to collect data. The participant of this study were random sixth grade English students of UIN Saizu Purwokerto. This study uses quantitative methods to describe the research results. Based on statistical data showed that most of the students feel they have much motivation in reading English text and vocabulary because using instagram is fun, unique, and easy to understand also it provide interesting content that could trigger them.