Preferred Social Media and Its Relationship to Interpersonal Communication and Classroom Participation
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18611672Keywords:
Social media, Facebook, interpersonal communication, dyadic communication, classroom participation, oral participation, written participation, descriptive correlational design, secondary school studentsAbstract
This study deals with the use of social media by secondary school students and its relationship to interpersonal communication and classroom participation. The use of descriptive correlational design in the study gave an appropriate view in finding the most preferred social media that the students use and presented the relationship between the respondents’ interpersonal communication and its effect on their classroom participation. The findings revealed that the most preferred social media among students is Facebook wherein there is a high extent of usage of this site in dyadic communication. Further, it was revealed that their classroom participation in both oral and written are elevated due to their exposure to social media. The students’ high extent of Facebook usage in dyadic communication increased their classroom participation.
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