College Students’ Attitude towards the Internet as Communication Medium and Level of Utilization of English Language in the Classroom (original) (raw)
Open Journal of Social Sciences
This descriptive-correlational study attempted to determine how college students' attitude towards the internet as communication medium influences their level of utilization of the English language in the classroom at the University of Perpetual Help System Laguna-Philippines during the second semester of AY 2017-2018. The respondents were the fifty (50) college students who took Technical Writing and Philippine Literature courses during the aforesaid term. The researcher employed simple random sampling technique in selecting the respondents. The findings revealed that there was no significant relationship between the students' attitude towards the Internet as communication medium and level of utilization of the English language in the classroom considering the obtained p value of 0.211 which was greater than the significance level @ 0.05. This comprehensive study concludes that although there are many pluses, students have diverse estimations and attitudes towards this contemporary process of learning using the internet as communication medium. Likewise, teachers play a very bulging part in enticing the student's attention to maximize the use of English language in the classroom which can be possibly acquired by creating interest among them through the employment of media platforms particularly the Internet which nowadays is undeniably inseparable from teaching and learning of the English language.
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