A Systematic Review: Telegram As Learning Media in Teaching English

Abstract

Social media as a medium for learning English is rapidly increasing during unusual conditions like in pandemics nowadays. Telegram, well-known as a communicative tool used by people worldwide, then transformed to use as learning media. This article contains Telegram as a medium that is packaging with a systematic review method. In short, a systematic review is a method that is used by research through analysis of some source that has a related topic, such as articles. This article aims to explore how telegrams as a learning medium are performing in teaching English. Besides, researchers tried to look for the effect of using telegrams as learning media. Researchers searched for articles on electronic search engines, namely Google Scholar, related to several articles; Telegram, MALL, English Learning, Learning Media. Moreover, for the characteristic researcher focus on Telegram as an English language learning medium, publications around 2017-2020, quantitative, and field research. Finally, 27 articles are relating to the keywords. Furthermore, researchers reduce eight articles because some aspects are not related, and the total from the articles include in this systematic review are 19 articles. Telegram performers were used as teaching assistants, assessment language, and learning media in English learning for the result. Additionally, in brief, researchers found that 18 articles positively affect learning English, yet 1 article is damaging. In its application of learning on Telegram, the teacher should apply a different strategy instead of offline because the students need explicit instructions about what the teacher wants. However, Telegram can be used as an English learning media assistant. Fundamental skills such as vocab, writing, and reading. The limitation of the research was the insufficient article resources related to language learning topics.