A QUALITATIVE INQUIRY ON THE BEHAVIOR OF ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS TOWARDS SOCIAL MEDIA DISTRACTIONS

Melissa O. Sagabala, Sheena Marie A. Regidor, Marie Chris M. Dela Torre, Ana Mae M. Monteza

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Online educational platforms and social media applications play a vital role in the learning process of students during the rise of the pandemic since knowledge acquisition and delivering instructions were done through virtual interactions. Hence, this study was designed to explore the behavior of the English major students in UM Digos College towards social media distractions that aimed to determine the influences of these diversions on students’ academic learning perceptions. Moreover, this qualitative study utilized a descriptive study where eight (8) participants were purposively chosen to respond to the different research questions. Collaizi`s method was used in order to provide a significant thematic analysis. As a result, the major findings revealed that the influence of social media distractions on the behavior of the students were students’ loss of eagerness, behavioral interruptions and self-improvement barriers whilst classroom interactiveness, flash notifications and students’ personal interests were found to be the main causes of these social media interferences in which multifaceted strategies such as traditional strategies and multiple digital strategies were asserted as coping mechanisms in overcoming social media distractions. Meanwhile, the study ended up with three implications namely: implication to the learning process, implication to the teaching process and implication to learners’ performance.

 

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social media distractions, qualitative inquiry, thematic analysis, UM Digos

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