摘要：After the invention of PC and the internet, smart phones and tablet PC are the common gadgets thatcan be easily found among people in Indonesia. Besides its advantages, these instruments change the way userscommunicating to the others. Preliminary observation suggests that students who used IT or communicationgadgets have developed a different attitude compared to those who are not. In writing for example, many youngstudents today tend to write using the keyboard rather than handwriting. From the writer’s point of view, it isbelieved that the characteristic of these communication gadgets has influenced the way most young teenagersact, talk, and behave. The result of analysis of this paper has provided a clearer picture on the effect of certaintechnology toward the behavior of some students and teachers at BINUS University. The data gathered throughqualitative observation from English Department students and English teachers at BINUS University shows thatthe presence of communication gadgets and social networking activities has changed the attitude especiallyconcerning to learning preference
关键词：communication gadgets; social networking; student attitudes; language learners
