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DOIONLINE Publish In |
International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS)-IJMAS |
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Issue |
Volume-4,Issue-12 ( Dec, 2018 ) | |||||||||
Paper Title |
Informal Reasons for using Social Networking sites (SNSs) in learning English Language and Students’ Self-Efficacy (SE) | |||||||||
Author Name |
Alyaa Omar Almarwaey, Lim, Sung-Taek | |||||||||
Affilition |
Lecturer of LESL Curricula & Instruction, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology & Statistics | |||||||||
Pages |
89-93 | |||||||||
Abstract |
This study aimed to explore what are the informal reasons that college students prefer to use SNSs in learning English Language through self-efficacy theory to explain how using SNSs will affect students’ beliefs. The study used questionnaire and collected data of 286 participants from Umm AL-Qura University. The findings clearly reflect that there is a significant positive correlation between informal reasons for using SNSs and students’ SE. Multiple regression analysis showed informal reasons for using SNSs has a positive effect on the students’ SE. The results suggest that using SNSs in the enjoyable learning purposes for informal reasons will promote students’ SE. Index Terms - SNS, self-efficacy, English Language, informal learning, college students. | |||||||||
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