EFL Undergraduate Students’ Perception on Using Smartphone As Informal Digital Learning: A Survey Study

Abstract

The purpose of this survey study was to investigate the perception of EFL undergraduate freshmen students on using smartphone as informal digital learning. All 64 participants of this study was from undergraduate freshmen students in Private University in Yogyakarta on major English Language Education. The data was collected by using questionnaire “Smartphone Use in Learning Foreign Language Scale” S ̧ad and Yakar (2017) consisting 21 items & the questionnaire was translated into Bahasa Indonesia by the researcher & supervisor on this study. The result of the data shows that students’ have positive perception in subscale General Contribution, Reading & Writing, Listening & Speaking. Also, from subscale Adverse Effects prove that smartphones have a few negative consequences from EFL undergraduate students that using smartphone in their informal digital learning at outside classroom. This statement emphasized based on the aggregated means indicate a positive perceptions on using smartphone in learning English as foreign language, with means ranging from “General Contribution” M=4.234; “Reading & Writing” M=3.640; “Listening & Speaking” M=4.781; “Adverse Effects” M=2.671