Iranian EFL Learners’ Perceptions of Clubhouse as a New Social Media Platform for English Language Learning)

Social media, nowadays, has provided a considerable opportunity for English language learning improvement. Accordingly, this study was aimed to investigate the perception of EFL learners toward the role of a very novel social media application called Clubhouse in English language learning. For this purpose, ۱۳۴ Iranian learners using Clubhouse for learning English answered a three-part questionnaire containing ۳۱ items. The first part of the questionnaire included six questions through which the learners were supposed to say how they perceived Clubhouse as a platform useful for educational purposes. The second part dealt with the items arising learners’perceptions toward Clubhouse as a platform useful specifically for English language learning. The last part, then, was aimed to find out what language skills are better learned through using Clubhouse based on learners’perceptions. The results for the first part of the questionnaire exhibited that participants almost agreed that Clubhouse could be regarded as a useful platform applicable for educational purposes. Based on the second part of the questionnaire, participants agreed that Clubhouse could be applied as a social media platform for language learning specially because of the opportunity it provides for their direct interaction with teachers and peers. Furthermore, it was perceived by language learners using Clubhouse that it helped them improve the language skills related to oral interaction including listening and speaking. Reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar, on the other hand, were not percieved to be influenced significantly through using Clubhouse.

کلیدواژه ها:

Clubhouse ، Perception ، education ، English language learning