STUDENTS' PERCEPTION TOWARD ENGLISH ONLINE LEARNING DURING COVID-19

Abstract

Students' perception has become an essential part of the teaching-
learning process.It needs to be considered for helping teachers as an
evaluation in the classroom. This research aims to know the students"™
perception of English online learning during Covid-19. Seventy-one
students at SMAN 1 Semparuk participated in this study. This study
was descriptive research with a quantitative approach that used thirty
items questionnaire as the data collection instrument adapted by
Anggarini (2021) and Santosa & Adijaya (2018). These questionnaires
contained three dimensions, namely (1) teaching material, (2) learning
interaction, and (3) learning environment. The data were analyzed
descriptively in several stages, and each respondent will be classified
into five categories of perceptions. The finding indicated that students'
perceptions toward English online learning at SMAN 1 Semparuk
during the Covid-19 Pandemic fell into a very high category of 1.4%
for one student, a high category of 14.1% for ten students, a medium
category of 46.5% for 33 students, a low category of 36.6% for 26
students, and a very low category 1, 4% for one student. These results
interpreted that students"™ perceptions of English online learning were
included in the medium to low categories.