BEYOND TIKTOK: OPTIMIZING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR ENGLISH LEARNING PURPOSE

All of Indonesian students take an English subject since elementary school to high school, but less then 50% of the students are not fluent in English. There must be a new way to deliver English materials for students, and one of them is optimizing Tiktok that is a popular social media among them. T...

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Main Author: Ferdi Arifin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tadris Bahasa Inggris IAIN Syekh Nurjati 2022-06-01
Series:ELT Echo: The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context
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Online Access:https://www.syekhnurjati.ac.id/jurnal/index.php/eltecho/article/view/9579
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description All of Indonesian students take an English subject since elementary school to high school, but less then 50% of the students are not fluent in English. There must be a new way to deliver English materials for students, and one of them is optimizing Tiktok that is a popular social media among them. Tiktok provides many features in its platform for socializing, communicating, and learning. The research aims to elaborate Tiktok as an effective social media for English learning purpose. It is a qualitative method that employs netnography approach. The results shows that many educators have already optimized Tiktok as a medium for English learning. There are several recommendations derived from Tiktok as good tools to catch up students to have feeling joy and find happiness during English learning.
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spelling doaj.art-f339d35c60be40d495d3887dcc70bc9d2022-12-22T04:04:11ZengTadris Bahasa Inggris IAIN Syekh NurjatiELT Echo: The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context2579-81702549-50892022-06-0171253410.24235/eltecho.v7i1.9579BEYOND TIKTOK: OPTIMIZING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR ENGLISH LEARNING PURPOSEFerdi Arifin0Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Mas Said Surakarta, IndonesiaAll of Indonesian students take an English subject since elementary school to high school, but less then 50% of the students are not fluent in English. There must be a new way to deliver English materials for students, and one of them is optimizing Tiktok that is a popular social media among them. Tiktok provides many features in its platform for socializing, communicating, and learning. The research aims to elaborate Tiktok as an effective social media for English learning purpose. It is a qualitative method that employs netnography approach. The results shows that many educators have already optimized Tiktok as a medium for English learning. There are several recommendations derived from Tiktok as good tools to catch up students to have feeling joy and find happiness during English learning.https://www.syekhnurjati.ac.id/jurnal/index.php/eltecho/article/view/9579tiktokoptimizing social mediaenglish learning purpose
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BEYOND TIKTOK: OPTIMIZING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR ENGLISH LEARNING PURPOSE
ELT Echo: The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context
tiktok
optimizing social media
english learning purpose
title BEYOND TIKTOK: OPTIMIZING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR ENGLISH LEARNING PURPOSE
title_full BEYOND TIKTOK: OPTIMIZING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR ENGLISH LEARNING PURPOSE
title_fullStr BEYOND TIKTOK: OPTIMIZING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR ENGLISH LEARNING PURPOSE
title_full_unstemmed BEYOND TIKTOK: OPTIMIZING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR ENGLISH LEARNING PURPOSE
title_short BEYOND TIKTOK: OPTIMIZING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR ENGLISH LEARNING PURPOSE
title_sort beyond tiktok optimizing social media platform for english learning purpose
topic tiktok
optimizing social media
english learning purpose
url https://www.syekhnurjati.ac.id/jurnal/index.php/eltecho/article/view/9579
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