The Effectiveness of Instagram as a Medium to Develop Vocabulary Competence in Senior High School: a Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

Social media has big impact on daily life, which indirectly makes people change cultural mindset to modern perception. One of social media is Instagram, which this application used to build relationship between peoples through virtual communication and long-distance interactions efficiently. Educators and researchers often apply it in global contexts for educational purposes, such as teaching and learning English vocabulary. When talk about English Learning, basically vocabulary become important aspect to measure understanding and know the level of English aspects. Combining Instagram with learning English is effective way to increase many benefits, especially for students. This article attempts to address about how effective of Instagram as Medium to Develop Vocabulary Competence through Systematic Literature Review Method in senior high school level. The type of research is Systematic Literature Review method. Systematic Literature Review method is method of research that use to identify, study, review, evaluate, and interpret all available research. Related with that, this method refers to topic interest to some phenomenon with certain relevant research questions. Instagram give benefits to develop student quality of understanding meaning many words. In that context, Instagram become one of medium to improve student-efficacy to get better vocabularies knowledge and reach information in same time.