This document summarizes a study on Internet usage and ownership of electronic gadgets among Form One students in a secondary school in Kuala Lumpur. A survey of 43 students found that most students own multiple electronic devices and have Internet access at home. The majority use the Internet daily for schoolwork, communication, and entertainment. The study aims to examine the relationship between Internet usage, gadget ownership, and students' lifestyles. Preliminary results suggest the Internet plays an important role in these students' lives.

1. KPT 6044
PEMBELAJARAN BERASASKAN
WEB DAN ELEKTRONIK
KAJIAN TINJAUAN
TAJUK ARTIKEL:
Internet usage and electronic gadgets among form one
student in a Kuala Lumpur school
PENSYARAH:
Profesor Madya Dato’
Dr. Abdul Latif bin Haji Gapor
NAMA: NG KAE HUEY
NO. MATRIK: M20122001293

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Internet usage and electronic gadgets among form one
student in a Kuala Lumpur school
NG KAE HUEY
University Pendidikan Sultan Idris
Abstract
This study mainly focuses on the daily Internet and electronic usage of Form one student in a
secondary school around the Kuala Lumpur area. A group of form one class consists of 43 students
with 22 males and 21 females are taking part as the participants of this research. The focus of the
study is to find the relation between Internet usage and number gadget ownership among the students.
Internet usage and number gadget ownership among the students are the two parameters to determine
the influences of the Internet in the students’ study lifestyles and culture. This research is taking up
the quantitative approach with an online survey done within 10 minutes with each student. Collective
questionnaire will be the qualitative approach to collect data about the students’ daily Internet usage
and electronic gadget possessive. The result shows that 32 (70%) out of 43 students own a mobile
phone with an Internet application. The proposed research will provide in-depth study of influence of
Internet and smart gadgets in nowadays teenagers’ lives.
Keywords: Internet; Internet usage; electronic; influence; academic achievement.

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Introduction
The Internet is defined as the worldwide system that connects millions of computers together to share
and to communicate.(Smaldino, 2012) As for the Wikipedia [1], the Internet is a global system that
interconnected computers through the network and complicated network protocol. The internet was
developed by the United States of America as new military invention during the years of the Cold
War. (Sahin, 2011) Following the widespread of the World Wide Web (WWW) Internet has increase
influence over human lives with widely ownership and easy accessibility of Internet computer in the
society. Usage of Internet among students and society members has increased over the year as the
Internet became an important part of every human life. (Cho et al.2005, Sahin, 2011) Internet weaves
through human lives from shopping, communication via the wide use of social networks and new
form of medium to meet with new people by using Facebook, and etc. (Sahin, 2011)
According to statistics done by World Internet Stats on December 31, 2011 [7] there was an estimated
2,267,233,742 Internet users worldwide which covered 32.7% of the world's population. A study by
United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union (ITU) jointly conducted with the Georgia
Institute of Technology [3] on the Internet in Malaysia in 2000, 31% of primary and 54% of
secondary schools already had computer facility such as computer lab , while 10% of primary and 34%
of secondary schools had Internet access. The study also found that 13.4 % or more than 3.9 million
Malaysians are active Internet users.
According to Wikipedia [2], the Internet has started to penetrate Malaysia society since 1995.
According to the usage and population statistic survey done in June 2009 by Internet World Stats [4],
there are 16, 902,600 Internet users which equals to 64.6% of the Malaysian population with 90 % of
at least 5 years active users are youth aged around 15 to 2 years old.

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Recently, under Malaysia year 2014 Budget [5], the government will spend RM$1. 8 billion to
develop the second phase high speed broadband (HSBB) project in partnership with the private sector
to provide additional Internet coverage and facilities for 2.8 million households nationwide mainly in
urban areas.
Therefore, this survey is aimed to explore the Internet usage among small sample of 13 years old
teenagers to seek answers to further study of implications of Internet among adolescent and teenagers.
Aim of the Study
This survey is carried out to examine the relation between Internet usage and gadget ownership
among the students. The following are questions needed to be answered from this survey.
1. Is the daily Internet usage among the students makes any difference in the students’ lifestyles?
2. Is the ownership of gadget determined the students’ lifestyles?
Materials and Methodology
Sampling Method
The method used in this survey is a quantitative approach. The sampling method applied in this
survey nonprobability sample method. The nonprobability sampling chosen for this survey is
convenience sampling that save time and ease data collection procedure.
Study Group
The students that take the survey come from Kuala Lumpur area secondary school named Sekolah
Menengah Kebangsaan Jinjang. The study group comes from 1A10 class with 43 students. Selection
of this sample group happens to be one of the classes teach by the researcher. The class is made out of
22 (51%) males and 21 (49%) females with their age averagely 13 years old each. Selected students

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come from various social economic backgrounds with all them live around Jinjang area. Most of the
students can converse minimal English language so the language is used in this survey is Malay
language.
Study Instrument
The survey form is designed by using the sample uses the survey monkey website [6] to form the 17
item questionnaire use in this survey. The survey form is designed using the Google Drive application
with an interactive and interesting theme. The first question is about their full name and the following
15 items in the survey form are multiple choice questions with average 5 choices. Only the last item
is planned as open ended questions that require sentence contrast answer and elaboration.
Data is collected by using Microsoft Excel and converted into colorful pie charts and bar charts. The
sample of the survey form is included in the appendix. Students from a form one class are brought to
the computer lab to complete the survey within 10 minutes given to every participant. They are
required to answer and complete the survey on 28 of October 2013 under the monitor of the
researcher with minimal guidance and help. The language uses in this survey is mainly Malay with
simple grammar construct to ease the students understanding about each item in the survey form.
Data Analysis Procedure
From the survey of 43 students, the collection of data is presented by using the Microsoft Excel data
sheet and chart generate function. Simple statistic calculation such as percentage and suitable chart
are used to display data.

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Results
Diagram 1: Gender.
Diagram 2 : Number of electronic gadgets at home.
Diagram 3: Brand of mobile phone ownership by the student.
Diagram 4: Accessibility of Internet in their mobile phone.
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Diagram 5: Internet service at home.
Diagram 6: Ownership of email account.
Diagram 7: Surfing Internet as hobby.
Diagram 8: Name of Internet service at home
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Diagram 9 : Purpose of Internet.
Diagram 10: How frequent the students use Internet in a week.
Diagram 11: Type of software the students know.
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Umur pelajar diberi telefon bimbit
Umur Pelajar (tahun)
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
tidak ada
4
7
8
9
10
12
13
Bilangan pelajar (orang)
Diagram 12: The age of student when they have their first mobile phone.
Diagram 13: Parental accompany when the student uses the Internet.
The subjects that take part in this survey consist of 22 (51%) male and 21 (49%) female form one
students as shown in diagram 1. The survey results show all students own at least 1 to 3 electronic
gadgets at home. 42% owns 4 to 7 electronic gadgets and 23% owns more than 8 electronic gadgets
(Diagram 2). Diagram 3 shows that 70% of the students own Samsung brand mobile phones, 8% of
them uses Apple iPhone, Nokia or Sony brand mobile phones, only 3% and 1% uses Huawei (China
brand) and others and respectively. From Diagram 4, we know that 32 (76%) of the mobile phone has
Internet online functions or application while 10 (24%) of the mobile phone does not have internet
online function or application.

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When the question about their house internet connectivity is asked, 39 (91%) of the students
answered yes and 4 (9%) said they don’t have internet service at home. 70% equals to 39 of them has
email account and 13 (30%) does not have email account as shown by Diagram 6. Diagram 7 shows
that 79 % (33) students claim that surfing Internet is their hobby and 21% (9) students does not claim
the same statement. Majority (65%) of the students has Unifi Wifi to surf Internet at home, 11% (5)
of the students use Maxis or Celcom to get online, P1 , Umobile and Yes internet services are 7%, 4%
and 2% respectively. (Diagram 8)
From diagram 9, the bar chart shows that students use Internet for various purposes such as doing
their homework, to meet new friends or leisure.
Diagram 10 shows the frequency of Internet usage by the students, where 44% (18) access to Internet
every day for a week. 22% (9) of them use Internet around 3 to 5 hour in a week. 20% surf Internet 1
t0 2 hours weekly. Diagram 11 shows the type of software and application the students know how to
use. Diagram 12 shows the age of the students when they receive their first mobile phone.
Discussion
The objectives of this survey are to find out the influence of Internet and electronic gadgets over
students’ lifestyles.
All students have at least one electronic gadget such as mobile phone or
computer in their house. So, Internet and electronic gadget are not alien to their lives. Although, 2(4%)
of the 43 students do not has mobile phone but they are exposed to electronic gadgets every day.
Jinjang is a new village surround by developing urban structures. Jinjang teenagers are familiar with
new technology and electronic gadgets as urban kids do. From data, (Diagram 7 and 9) 79% of the
students has email and 35 of them have Facebook account to go online. 41 (95%) of the students uses
Internet almost every days. All the students have Internet services at home. It is reasonable to
conclude that the studied students are computer literate and the Internet indeed plays important part in

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the students’ lives. The students use Internet almost every day to complete their homework and
socialize. This indicate that Internet really influence students’ lives as well as electronic gadgets.
Conclusion
Internet becomes increasing significant in teenager lives. The findings from the survey did on 28 of
October 2013 through the online survey, it shows that the Internet has significant influence over
students’ lives.

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Appendix
Survey form
Title: Smart Gadget around us.
(http://goo.gl/0u5tgi)
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