Utilizing Social Media to Engage Students in an ESP Learning Program
$ 42.5
Description
In the twenty-first century, where when everyone has a smartphone, the use of social media has become an indispensable part of our daily lives. This research project concentrated on the effect of utilizing social media to engage students in English for specific purposes (ESP) learning program. By using triadic reciprocal determinism (Bandura,A. (1978).The self system in reciprocal determinism. American Psychologist, 33(4), 344-358) as its theoretical basis, this project observed how personal factors, behavioral factors, and environmental factors reciprocally affect one another. It also considered differences between students’ independent construal and their interdependent construal into consideration. This research project proposed nine hypotheses and developed its questionnaires based on these hypotheses. A total of 494 valid questionnaires were collected. The main targets of the questionnaires were college students and people who had just entered the workforce. This research project used the IBM SPSS Statistics 22 and AMOS 21 programs to analyze its statistical data. The results of the research demonstrate that utilizing social media in an ESP learning program can enhance students’ learning motivation. With the use of social media, students’ learning does not need to be restricted to specific locations or limited times. However, it can also be observed that, because of cultural differences, the use of social media certainly does not always result in perfect learning outcomes.