The Students' and Teachers' Perceptions on English Language Learning through Learning Management System

Abstract

The aim of this research is the students in SMPN 2 Jember. SMPN 2 Jember is the school that uses Learning Management System in teaching with SPADA Online Learning as the application is used as teaching and learning media. The result and findings of this research can be an academic contribution to be used by future researchers that are interested in blended learning using Learning Management System (LMS). the researcher employed qualitative as the research design. By using case study, the researcher collected the data from interviews with the teachers and gave questionnaires to the students. There are 126 students from the 7th and 8th grades of SMPN 2 Jember were taken as the main data. The result from this research is this research finds LMS has many interests from the students. The students felt that the LMS is easy to operate. LMS is very easy for the students to understand the subject and to support blended learning then the students have more focused on reading and studying when I used SPADA Online Learning. LMS also makes students feel happy in learning because they can do and learn everywhere. students do not have limitations in using LMS. The weakness perceived in LMS is when a lot of students use the application, sometimes the program is low then the application cannot work well. Once, in LMS SPADA Online Learning the teacher cannot give feedback to the students by using LMS.