Reading English Texts through Telegram App: Indonesian Vocational Students’ Perceptions

Abstract

This study investigates how the students perceive the use of Telegram on their reading comprehension. For this purpose, 104 students in an Indonesian vocational school who are from various majors are selected to fulfil an online questionnaire about Telegram acceptance for learning English. Then, its result is compared to the score of students’ reading comprehension. For its validity of reading comprehension achievement, this study employs construct validity of the reading text that the English teacher gives. Accordingly, this study reveals a weak correlation between how the students perceive the use of Telegram and the students’ reading comprehension. It is signified by the correlation between the two variables of interest .364 which is significant at the .000 level. It indicates that the student’s perception and the reading comprehension for this set of data are significant but in a weak relationship. This may be caused by the reading strategy, reading text that is not exactly valid and Telegram function which comprises merit and demerit.