THE EFFECT OF USING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR LEARNING ENGLISH TO THE STUDENTS’ LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

In this research is carried out in order to find out  how far the effect of using social media for learning English to the students’ learning achievement of English Language Education Program during covid-19 pandemic is. And in this research the writer takes all the students of first and third semester as the object of this research, they are 40 students. For getting the needed data, the writer applies the library and field research. The library research is applied based on the needs of the books as the sources of theories and informations, and the field research is applied based on the need of data from the field, in this case from the English Study Program, Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Graha Nusantara University. And as the instrument for collecting the data the writer uses the written test. After getting the data, the next step which is done by the writer is analyzing it by using the statistical analysis. After analyzing the data, it has been got that the value of r_XY is 0.79. By consulting this value to the table of interpretation given before, it is known that it can be categorized into the high correlation. It means using social media for learning English give significant effect to the students learning achievement of English Language Education Program during covid-19 pandemic. So the hypothesis of this research:“ there is a significant effect of using social media for learning English to the students’ learning achievement of English Language Education Program during covid-19 pandemic”is accepted.