The use of the Instagram application as social media today is very widely
used by the younger generation with interesting features to share photos or
videos. Not only to communicate or interact online Instagram also provides other
benefits in the world of education which are conveyed through short and easy-tounderstand educational videos such as English education. Like many Instagram
accounts with users of a teacher coach or native English speaker who provides
education through videos.
This study aims to explore the skills and aspects of English that can be
trained from the video, English learning materials, and the benefits of learning
English from social media Instagram. This study uses a qualitative descriptive
method with the research subjects are 164 English educational content videos
from the @speakenglishwithmish instagram account. This research was conducted
by observing these videos and interviewing the five followers of the Instagram
account.
The results of this study show that of the 4 English macro skills and 4
English micro skills, all of them can be trained or learned from these videos. As
for the English material taught, there are 164 videos that can train listening skill
and increasing vocabulary, 139 videos for reading skill, 14 videos for learning
speaking skill, 30 videos for learning writing skill, 50 videos for learning
pronunciation, 20 videos for learning spelling and 45 videos for learning
grammar. In this video, there are 6 benefits of learning English through social
media according to the results of interviews with 5 followers of the Instagram
account, namely: developing listening skill, developing reading skill, developing
speaking skill, developing writing skill, developing pronunciation and increasing
vocabulary.