CYBERBULLYING AMONG EFL STUDENTS’ BLOGGING ACTIVITIES: MOTIVES AND PROPOSED SOLUTIONS

• Authors: Hamuddin Budianto , Rahman Fathu , Pammu Abidin , Sanusi Baso Yusring , Derin Tatum
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Cyberbullying during English teaching involving Information Communication Technology (ICT) is an exciting topic to study. Seeing how new language learners share their thoughts and feelings through blogs as alternative learning media and how they engage in cyberbullying in their online interactions may reveal the motives beyond cyberbullying acts. This present study used the mixed method approach to understand the motives to tailor the anti-cyberbullying recommended solutions. The data is extended from a 3-month preliminary study to an 18-month investigation of 711 cyberbullying comments archived in 251 blogs owned and actively used by EFL university students at English Department of Universitas Lancang Kuning (Unilak). The analysis revealed the major students’ motive is just to have fun (70%), followed far behind by the motive to fight back (8%), to express upset feelings (7%), and other motives (12%). 16 students with the highest track record of cyberbullying in their blogging activities were interviewed to discuss their motives for cyberbullying other students whom they have known for at least more than 18 months. Results indicate cyberbullying among language learners seems to be an act of playing with language or linguistics wordplay. Cyberbullying seems to be a sort of language exaggeration for EFL students who possess limited competence in English when they interact in the online network. Based on the results, a new definition of cyberbullying was offered to accommodate the linguistic nature of cyberbullying. Using the primary health care framework by the World Health Organization (WHO), this present study designed a practical list of ready-made classroom activities to combat cyberbullying in four different steps, i.e. promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative.

Keywords

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cyberbullying; motives; solutions; linguistic wordplay; blogs

• Publisher: IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group & University of Nicosia
• Journal: Teaching English with Technology
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 3-20

Contributors

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Hamuddin Budianto

• Hasanuddin University

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Rahman Fathu

• Hasanuddin University

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Pammu Abidin

• Hasanuddin University

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Sanusi Baso Yusring

• Hasanuddin University

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Derin Tatum

• Universitas Lancang Kuning

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