Investigating Indonesian EFL Learners’ Extramural English

Abstract

Extramural English has been proven to have an impact on language learning. The positive connection had looked into the beneficial relationship between frequent contacts with Extramural English learning language. Considering the importance of extramural English in language learning, it is important to investigate the tendency of extramural English activities done by Indonesian EFL learners especially the adult learners. A survey study with a cross sectional design was implemented to investigate the tendency. The data were collected by using questionnaire that focused on six Extramural English activities. The data collected were analyzed by calculating the frequency and percentage of the students’ response in each extramural English activity. Further, an analysis on the average score of each activity was done to rank the popularity of the extramural English activities among Indonesian adult EFL learners. The results showed that the most popular extramural English activity done by Indonesian EFL learners in the present research with highest average score was listening to music especially English songs (AVG = 4,15), followed by watching YouTube especially English videos (AVG = 3,25), watching English TV/films (AVG = 3,2), English streaming or surfing in the internet (AVG = 3,02), using social media (AVG = 2,8), playing online games with English instruction (AVG = 2,73).