An Impact of The Use Instagram Application Towards Students Vocabulary

Do you have social media? What kinds of social media do you have? I think, you all are have it, right? Social media are interactive computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation or sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks. Social media becomes something that people do not stop talking about. Especially nowadays, the rise of Instagram as a social media is very popular for everyone. The use of Instagram also varies depending on the account owner, such as, as a personal account to share daily life or as a business account to show and sell their products. However, have you ever thought about using Instagram as a teaching and research tool? How can an Instagram influence the increasing of student's vocabulary in English? What are the tools in Instagram that can be used as the media to learn or increase student's vocabulary? In this discussion, we will explain one by one in a further explanation. Instagram is a popular visual social media site. People share all sorts of stunning visuals to share their lives and their stories. There are also people who use Instagram as a medium for sharing knowledge, motivation, or wise words using English, or maybe even there are some accounts that use their account as a place for sharing English knowledge such as spelling, pronunciation or even sharing lots of vocabulary that maybe only a few people know, for example English slang. Like you know, in this era of globalization, English is increasingly needed as a means of communication and information world. You can get lot of information through an Instagram and you can communicate with people around the world via this media. For students English major, some of them are looking for information in the form of knowledge that can improve the quality of their English through videos, tutorials, posts, or a caption that is realized or not when they watch or read that information, they also have received a new vocabulary that they may immediately apply in daily life. the use of social media especially an instagram is very influence students vocabulary. Since this application is very familiar for everyone. From the sample also we can see that they are often use this apps to increase their vocabulary. This application can increase students vocabulary from the feature that is provide by them, both through a caption or a video, but from the samples, the writer knows that a captions feature is more effective than a videos. The writer suggest that the use of an instagram can used as well as possible, do not use it as a negative thing. We can learn from anywhere and at any time, so when we have media that is already available and we often use like this Instagram, why don't we use it as learning media.