The Use Of Instagram As Mobile Learning To Improve Students Vocabulary

Abstract

In the recent last decade, social media has influenced teenagers in the world for being conscious with smartphone`s benefits to getting information, entertainment, and edutainment. Instagram is one of favorite social media for teenagers. In this study the researcher intends to discuss the use of Instagram to improve the vocabulary of the first semester students of the Department English Education at Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. This is descriptive qualitative research using the theory of hermeneutic phenomenology approach. Data collection methods in this study is interview, while the method of data analysis is content interpretative data analysis. The subject of the research are four students of English Education Department in the first semester. Data validity is member checking. The results of this study are (1) Instagram is a social media platform as a source of new vocabulary, through content written by other users using English raises curiosity of the words meaning (2) Instagram allows students to study in anywhere and at anytime, flexibility make learning be comfortable without coercion, and (3) Instagram has accessible connection and has affordable prices, students can access Instagram installed on the smartphone easily and free