STUDENTS' PERCEPTION OF LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS) UTILIZED IN ONLINE ENGLISH LEARNING SITUATION DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Denita Azzahra Ramadania

doi:10.22236/ellter.v2i2.7589

Abstract

This research is aimed to figure out the students' perceptions of Learning Management Systems (LMS) that they utilized in Online English Learning Situation During Covid-19 Pandemic. Nowadays, many teachers have changed their face-to-face learning to full online learning as the impact of coronavirus outbreak. This situation creates new model of learning in which Learning Managements System or LMS becomes one of platform that are used by both teachers and students to support learning. The various LMS such as Google Classroom, Edmodo, Schoology, Moodle, and etc. are gained interest and popular in education context including English Language Learning (ELL) and Teaching (ELT). Hence, the writer tries to expose the valuable insight from the students' perception towards those LMS by conducting a quantitative study within survey design and instruments. This research involved 125 respondents mainly from Jabodetabek area. After the data has been collected, the writer analyzed it by using Ms. Excel 2010. The result showed a positive sight from the students. They seemed enjoy using LMS, since it facilitates students in learning English with easy features to submit assignment, quiz, feedback, and communication forum.

Highlights

These days technology expands rapidly and interfere every pillar or aspects of human’s life including education matter
To conduct this study, a quantitative approach with survey method of Closed-ended and Openended questionnaire was used. This approach is appropriate to this study, since according to Leavy (2017) the main advantage is you could collect an extensive range of data from a large number of respondents, which would allow the writer to make determinations about EFL students’ perception of Learning Management System (LMS) utilized to facilitate their online English learning
In order to get student’s perception of Learning Management System, the close-ended questionnaire which contain of 20 statements were asked to 125 participants in Senior and Junior High School in Jabodetabek region

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Introduction

These days technology expands rapidly and interfere every pillar or aspects of human’s life including education matter. As well as teacher cannot refuse the fact that today’s teaching must run technology-supported learning (Bhalla, 2013). The expansion of educational technology is massively utilized in context of English Language Teaching or Learning (ELT or ELL). This goes along with Istifci (2017) who stated that language learning including English has been affected by technological development. The differences in the learning method used today are evidence of technological improvement

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