TITLE:
College Students’ Attitude towards the Internet as Communication Medium and Level of Utilization of English Language in the Classroom
AUTHORS:
Antonio R. Yango, Pedrito Jose V. Bermudo, Erwin B. Quendangan
KEYWORDS:
College Students, Attitude, College Students’ Attitude, Internet as Communication Medium, Utilization, English Language, Classroom
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.7 No.7,
July
31,
2019
ABSTRACT: 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.