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A Survey On The Use Of Social Media As A Medium In Learning Writing Skills
this research aimed to investigate the use of social media as a medium in learning writing skills. The subjects of this study were the second-year students of the English Study Program, Faculty of Teachers Training and Education, Universitas Riau (2019 batch). This study used the total sampling technique which means all the population was used as the sample. 85 students completed the questionnaire. This study showed that kinds of social media that are commonly used in learning writing are Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Some specific writing skills learned through social media claimed by the respondents included learning new vocabulary, grammatical structure, correct spelling, paragraph development, correct capitalization, correct punctuation, unified ideas, and coherent ideas. Social media is used in learning writing skills namely; social media for adding references and information, as the main learning resource, for developing creativity, as a facilitator in collecting assignments, for online discussion, for receiving material and for sending material in learning writing skills.
Keywords: Social Media, Medium, Writing Skills
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