STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF USING TIKTOK AS A LEARNING AID IN THEIR SPEAKING ENGLISH AT FIRST SEMESTER OF ZAINUL HASAN GENGGONG ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY
Keywords:
Speaking Skills, Tiktok App, Student PerceptionAbstract
This research explores students' perceptions of using Tiktok as a learning tool to improve their English speaking skills. Through interviews with students, it was found that Tiktok, along with other social media platforms such as YouTube, Instagram and so on, plays an important role in improving speaking proficiency. Researchers used qualitative descriptive methods and involved five students. They are first semester English students, academic year 2025/2026. This study found that the majority of students have a positive perception of using Tiktok reels in speaking skills. Students believe that this tool is comfortable and fun to develop a new atmosphere in learning to speak, it also increases their motivation because Tiktok reels provide interesting content for improving their speaking skills, they can find many Tiktok accounts that post more about English lessons with short duration even though students sometimes get a distract cause of random video but they already know their own goals to practice consistently every day and everywhere. Through this tool, students gain a lot of vocabulary from the video, quotes, caption, or comment section that is very helpful for them to improve their speaking performance especially when they are engaged in communication with other people both inside or outside classroom practice
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