The aims of this study is to describe students’ perception toward Instagram as the media for English language learning. The research partisipants were students of English language education department at Walisongo State Islamic University, Semarang in academic year 2023/2024. The method of this research was qualitative and descriptive research design. The data was collected using a questionnaire and interview. The data analysis in this research belongs the stage of data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusions. A total of 41 students participated in filling out the questionnaire and six students as the participants of the interview. Based on the research results obtained are students perceive learning vocabulary by using English learning Accounts on Instagram was really supporting their learning especially for improving English vocabularies, it really helped the students to enriching new vocabulary that they got by following the English vocabulary learning account on Instagram. Students also stated that they get a lot of benefits while learning English vocabularies through Instagram to improve English vocabulary, on the other hand, even Instagram also has several disadvantages such as internet quota which becomes more wasteful and will waste time if used too much, but that disadvantages can be minimized if students can be more wise when using Instagram. Based on the research it can be concluded that Instagram can be one of the good choices to be used as another alternative as a student learning media to improve students' vocabulary.