Improving Learning Outcomes through Students' Interaction on Social Media

Abstract

The millennial generation is highly associated with gadget and thus makes their lives revolve around social media. It is common for them to spend hours juggling from one social medium to the other. It is time consumed and fruitless in the eyes of parents. Despite that many linguists and educators find that social media are potential in becoming new learning spaces. Due to that fact, this paper intends to find out whether social media (in this study: facebook) can be used as a learning medum. It aims to investigate whether student-student interaction during status updating and commenting on the status can improve students’ grammatical competence and thus enhance students’ writing skills. For the purpose of the study, students are encouraged to give comments towards grammatical mistakes and give correction if necessary. Interaction types and number of comments are analyzed to support the findings. The study found out that the types of interaction do not affect students’ performance and there is no relation between the number of comments given and received comments as well as the number of mistakes made and appointed mistakes to students’ improvement. Keywords—grammar in writing; online learning situation; students interaction