The Effect of Online Learning on Students' Speaking Activities During Pandemic C0vid-19

Abstract

 

Abstract: This research presents the effect of online learning on students’ speaking activities during pandemic covid-19. Speaking is a crucial part of second language learning and teaching, it is an art of communications and one of 4 productive skills that must be mastered in learning foreign language. The covid-19 pandemic has brought some effects in Indonesia. This pandemic condition has forced all activities that cause a crowd to be stopped, including teaching and learning activities at school and campus. As a result, the learning activities is carried out to be online learning. Online learning is considered to be the best solution for teaching and learning activities in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic. The development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has a big effect on education in Indonesia, especially in the learning process. It means that the learning process can be applied not only face to face (traditional learning), but also to online learning (modern learning). Therefore, the researcher then conducted a research with the aim to give a detail description of the positive and negative effect of online learning on students’ speaking activities during pandemic covid-19.

The design of this research was qualitative approach with descriptive qualitative design. The participants of this research were the forth semester of English Education Department University of Islam Malang. The participants were chosen two students in every classes in that semester. To explore the effect of online learning on students speaking activities, the researcher used an online-based questionnaire and an online-based interview as the methods of collecting the data. The instruments used in this research were questionnaire adapted from (Yustina Fitriani, 2020). The questionnaire used in this research was using Likert Scale, hence the data was analyzed by using theory derived from Sugiono (2015). To get additional information about the effect of online learning on students speaking activities, the researcher also uses open-ended interviews in obtaining the data.

The findings of this study showed that online learning had some positive and negative effects for the students’ speaking activities. Some positive effect of online learning in speaking class activities could increase their creativity and felt easy to study outside the class, it also made flexibility of the leaning process and the material that the lecture gave could be accessed any time, the students also could know and master any kinds of media as a learning style method. Some negative effects of online learning in speaking class activities made the students got difficulty to interact directly with the lecturer and friends, the students lack of motivation and practicing their speaking skill ability, the students also had a problem with the internet network. It made the students did not get the efficient class in speaking online learning activities.

 

Keywords: The effect, Online learning, Speaking activities.