STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARD THE USE OF ZOOM FOR TEACHING SPEAKING
THESIS
BY:
MOHAMMAD ILHAM YASIN NPM 2190.20.73.003
UNIVERSITY OF ISLAM MALANG GRADUATE PROGRAM
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING STUDY PROGRAM JUNE 2021
ABSTRACT
Yasin, Ilham, 2021. Students’ perception using zoom in speaking skill. Thesis, English Education department, post graduate program. University of Islam Malang: Advisor (1) Dr. Hj.
Mutmainnah Musthofa, M.Pd.
Keywords: Speaking skill, students’ perception, the use of zoom.
This study aimed to know and dig out the deep students’ perception using zoom in speaking skill as the alternative solution, whether the use of zoom as media in online learning in speaking class effective or ineffective during pandemic eras of COVID-19. The subject of this study were thirty of English department students at fourth semester of University of Islam Malang. The research was survey qualitative.
The data collection technique was undertaken by giving questionnaires through Google Form and use the technique of deep interview using smartphone recording in zoom meeting.
There were thirty students participated in giving questionnaire and there were nine students participated in undertaking the deep interview at fourth semester of English department University of Islam Malang.
The data were analyzed and interpreted through qualitative procedure. The findings indicated that the majority of students at fourth semester of English department have negative perception in using zoom in speaking skill as the alternative learning media in this pandemic of COVID-19. The result of this study indicates that the use of zoom in speaking class ineffectively to be used in speaking class, the use of zoom in speaking class could not give the students real social interaction and make the students to be a silent learner in speaking without having adequate feedback and special opportunity in conducting the discussion in speaking class.
ABSTRACT
Yasin, Ilham, 2021. Students’ perception using zoom in speaking skill. Thesis, English Education department, post graduate program. University of Islam Malang: Advisor (1) Dr. Hj.
Mutmainnah Musthofa, M.Pd.
Keywords: Speaking skill, students’ perception, the use of zoom.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menggali persepsi siswa yang mendalam terhadap penggunaan zoom in speaking skill sebagai alternatif solusi, apakah penggunaan zoom sebagai media dalam pembelajaran online di kelas speaking efektif atau tidak efektif di masa pandemi COVID-19. Subjek penelitian ini adalah tiga puluh mahasiswa jurusan Bahasa Inggris semester empat Universitas Islam Malang.
Jenis penelitian ini adalah survei kualitatif.
Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan pemberian kuesioner melalui Google Form dan menggunakan teknik wawancara mendalam dengan menggunakan smartphone recording in zoom meeting. Ada tiga puluh mahasiswa yang berpartisipasi dalam pemberian angket dan ada sembilan mahasiswa yang mengikuti wawancara mendalam pada semester empat jurusan Bahasa Inggris Universitas Islam Malang.
Data dianalisis dan diinterpretasikan melalui prosedur kualitatif. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa mayoritas mahasiswa semester IV jurusan Bahasa Inggris memiliki persepsi negatif dalam menggunakan zoom in speaking skill sebagai media pembelajaran alternatif di masa pandemi COVID-19 ini. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan zoom di kelas berbicara tidak efektif digunakan di kelas berbicara, penggunaan zoom di kelas berbicara tidak dapat memberikan siswa interaksi sosial yang nyata dan membuat siswa menjadi pembelajar diam dalam berbicara tanpa harus umpan balik yang memadai dan kesempatan khusus dalam melakukan diskusi di kelas berbicara.
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
This chapter provides background information related to subject matter triggered to be explored and analyzed, present the motivation why the researcher intended to do the research on the subject matter, and general aims of doing the research.
1.1 Research Background
Currently, in this pandemic era there are many obstacles in preventing the learning process. The problem during covid-19 make the teacher and students difficult to conduct learning process effectively because it was unable for students to receive the education from the school based on the students’ needs. According to Goldschmidt (2020) globally, since the covid-19 attacked and surprise the world everything has stopped. All the project has been delayed, workplace closed and schools shut down.
The word seems to have ground to a halt because of the novel coronavirus.
Despite the lack of a nation-wide lockdown, schools remain closed, meaning that students who have no access to a device or internet connection will have a difficult time maintaining their education. Due to these factors, they will be in a very difficult spot educationally until the COVID-19 pandemic dies down in Indonesia. In this situation, the government should make extra efforts to support the education sector and build a sense of solidarity among schools, such as by facilitating networks between
international and national/public schools to share experiences and study methodologies for online teaching.
The rapid expansion of technology tools in recent year has been transferring foreign language teaching into a completely new level. Considering the limited opportunities both for interaction outside the classroom and for the development of learners’ communicative competence, new technologies especially capabilities for audio and video communication that have emerged lately in educational context are particularly useful for successful achievement of language learning objectives. It has been widely agreed that pursuing authentic communicative goals allows learners to develop communicative competence. The concept of communicative competence has itself been long discussed in literature (Alsagoff, Lubna, et.al. 2012).
However, students continue their education through online learning and via video calls with their teachers, especially in big cities such as Jakarta. “The model is currently the best alternative as keeping schools open poses a safety risk for students. many countries have adopted this approach.Basilaia, Giorgi (2020) “opined that schools in New York, the United States, prepared for online learning.
The online classes implemented in Indonesia work differently from those in the US. This is due to a lack of preparation in this country. As a student participating in the home-learning program, online school was confusing to adjust to as we had not been prepared through simulations or practices beforehand. Students reported the home- learning program to be even more stressful than regular classrooms. Some of the
common reasons for this went along the lines of: "Normal classes may have been difficult, but having friends makes it so much more manageable and less stressful.
Mohammadi (2010) argued that online learning is commonly referred to as the intentional use of networked information and communications technology in teaching and online learning. Online learning can be defined in this way too: the application of electronic system such as, internet, computer, multimedia which their aim is to reduce the number of expenses and goings and comings.
In addition, Goyal (2012), claimed that online learning can be defined as the science of learning without using paper printed instructional material. Online learning is the use of telecommunication technology to deliver information for education and training. With the progress of information and communication technology development, online learning is emerging as the paradigm of modern education.
Online classes take out the benefits of having friends to socialize with and being stuck alone with nothing but assignments." Many students participating in home- learning programs also say that the workload of online classes is larger than that of regular classes.”The general consensus is that home-learning programs although highly beneficial and a good alternative to school as schools are closed still require some getting used to by students, as it is a novel concept and not many are experienced with them (Hayati,2020).
However,”although the closing of schools does have a silver lining (home- learning programs where students are still able to learn), the true sufferers of the
government order of school closings are the students in less fortunate situations and the students who are in schools that are not well-funded. This is because those students lack the devices and internet access to be able to participate in online classes, and the schools do not have the capacity to teach online. Unlike in New York where devices are distributed to students by schools and private companies, in Indonesia, there is yet to be this kind of effort. This leaves many students in a bad spot where they are unable to receive an education. Although internet service providers have been giving out free data packages, they are simply not capable of supporting video calls on programs such as Zoom.
“Thus, in using online learning of zoom some alternative media or application can be used to support learning process of speaking. Students can easily perform their speaking performance in virtual meeting by using zoom and it is enable students to practice their speaking performance. The use of zoom in learning speaking extremely give students and the lecturer special opportunity in this pandemic era to conduct learning process in speaking without any limit and it also make the lecturer easier to assess their students speaking performance, it can equip students with feedback from their classmates related to their own performance in speaking class.
“Online education through zoom is a general concept for the teaching and online learning process with the aid technology tools and platform which are able to manage online learning process and success the learners during learning process in pandemic eras in giving the teacher and students opportunity to make the learning process run well. online education through zoom also can be suitable to be used in
speaking class because it makes the social interaction between students and teacher in conducting effective discussion. “Through the zoom application, the students can train their speaking ability to make them accustom to speak with the zoom participant then the teacher can easily measure their speaking (Wargadinata, Wildana, et.al. 2020).
”Oral interaction has long been considered an important element in the field of second language acquisition, and it has been widely agreed that speaking skills develop best in an authentic situation that involves negotiation of meaning.”It is important to mention that while being situated within the e-learning context, videoconferencing significantly differs from text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC),”as it allows for audiovisual channels in the interaction (Wardani, Deklara Nanindya, et.al.
2018).
“Thornbury (2005, p. 79) claimed that speaking is a cognitive skill as the core brain uses to think, read, and learn which the idea of knowledge becomes increasingly automated through successive practice. It could be assumed that speaking practice is the main key for students in Indonesia as the EFL learners to minimize their difficulties in learning speaking. So in this pandemic era of covid-19 the rule of education obligates to conduct learning process by using online class in order that the aim of learning can be successful through the zoom. Speaking in online learning of zoom has two parts, an individual presentation and group discussion.
” The first one needs learners to convey facts, to explain, express preferences and to make decisions. “The second one examines the ability of the learners to interact and take turns, to negotiate meaning, to manage discussion and to close the discussion.
Many studies show the difficulty of mastering English speaking skill. In fact, speaking skill not too easy. Some factor that cause problem in speaking to students, first are poor reading habits, confusion of in the application grammar rules Rasmitadila (2020.). By using video conferencing such as: zoom, google meet, and the other online learning application, it can make students able to practice their speaking with their classmate and also learning process cannot be delayed. According to Luh Devi (2020). Learning that involves audio visual elements provides benefit for mastery English speaking skill.
Moreover, currently mobile facility has equipped with various application that can be used to learn English speaking in this pandemic era.
There is study already carried out by Chiew Hong, (2020). On his research. The research discusses about the benefit impact of online learning especially in speaking class during covid-19 by using zoom has significant result in overcoming the teachers and students’ problem in conducting speaking class.
The main aim of this study was to allow the students the opportunity to know the students speaking skills in English department UNISMA at fourth semester by preparing and participating in a series of interactions in the form of speaking class via videoconferencing (zoom).”As a result, it decided to work within the framework of task-based instruction, as it involves learners’ active participation in sharing and exchanging information through problem-solving situations and triggers meaningful use of the target language (Adnan, Muhammad, et.al. 2020).
Thus, perception will arise because the learning system that usually uses the face to face method turns into total online learning. Willson (1974, p. 309) proposed
the term perception as the shaping information that someone obtains from the senses.
It is a kind neurological activity deals with associative learning. Human percept something through their sense and interpret their perception through their action model idea. There will be many perception, such as pros and cons of changing this system from each generation at English Education Department Students’ perception and the use of zoom for their learning speaking during covid-19. As the problem mentioned above, the researcher is interested in conducting research at fourth semester of English department of Unisma especially in speaking to know the students’ perception in using zoom in learning speaking because the majority of learning in this pandemic must use online learning to make the learning process run well. The researcher will take several students of fourth semester English department of Unisma. The selection in conducting research will be chosen by the researcher based on the available network of students because they are coming from different areas which have different the quality of internet connection and also have the difference time.
It has inspired the research to focus on the students’ perception and the use of zoom in learning speaking at fourth semester of English Departments of Unisma.
Related to the previous pronouncement, the researcher to be glad conducted qualitative research under the title” Students Perception Toward The Use of Zoom for Teaching Speaking At Fourth Semester of English Department of Unisma .
In the previous study was undertaking above with several researchers about the use of online learning in speaking using zoom. The researcher wants to conduct a research to know and dig out students’ perception in online learning speaking by using
zoom because in the previous research there is no researcher conduct research about students’ perception in learning speaking by using zoom as leaning media application during COVID-19. Commonly, the previous research in conducting online learning in speaking only use discuss about the implementation of zoom in learning speaking did not tried to know and dig out the students’ perception about the use of zoom as learning media application during pandemic to measure whether the use of zoom in speaking could be the best alternative media in learning speaking.
1.2 Statement of the problems
Based on the background the study, the problem of study is formulated as follows:
1. What is the students’ perception using zoom at fourth semester of English department of UNISMA, in speaking during COVID-19?
2. How is the students’ perception at fourth semester of English department of UNISMA, about the measure using zoom in speaking skill during covid-19?.
1.3 Objective study
1. Based on the research problems, the objective of this study to know the students’
perception toward the utilization of zoom and the lecture learning style in Undergraduate students of University of Islam Malang at fourth semester.
2. Based on the second research problem above, the researcher wants to know and dig out the students’ perception at fourth semester of English department UNISMA about the effectiveness zoom in speaking during COVID-19.
1.4 The significance of study
The result of the study will be expected to give meaningful contribution to a. The English teacher
The result is expected to be one of media for teaching speaking in online learning especially in speaking class. The researcher hope this study is useful either theoretically and practically. Theoretically, it can be useful for educational online learning particularly for English subject in conducting learning in this pandemic through virtual meeting of zoom. Practically, it can be used to motivate English lecturer to be more creative in teaching to find the alternative media in this pandemic eras in utilizing zoom meeting on his or her teaching. This study perceived to be useful to help lecture and students in conducting learning and teaching process in this pandemic of COVID-19.
b. This research is expected to be useful for those who are interested in conducting research related to the speaking skill in online learning in this pandemic eras of COVID-19.
1.5 Scope and limitation of the study
This research will be conducted at fourth semester English Department of University of Islam Malang. It will focus on the teaching speaking skill by using the utilization of zoom to know students’ perception and the lecturer learning style during covid-19 was attacked. The limitation in this study during the implementation online
learning in speaking class is: internet connection, internet package helps, and simulation preparation.
1.6 Definition of key terms
The following clarifies some term used in the research to avoid ambiguity as well as misunderstanding of terms.
Zoom
Zoom is an online learning media in the learning and teaching process to monitor the and manage meeting of learning process by using video conferencing. In this case, zoom as media in learning speaking and the use of teaching learning process of speaking outside the classroom. This learning media selected by the researcher to undertake the research at fourth Semester of English Department of UNISMA.
Perception
Perception is what immediately experienced by a person. Practically, perception here refers to students’ perception and the use of zoom in learning speaking at fourth semester of English Department of UNISMA.
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGESSTION
In this chapter indicates the last part of the study which cover some point restatement of the finding and recommendation to the further research.
6.1 Conclusion
Overall, the research conclusion is presented based on the data which have been revealed on the students’ perception using zoom in speaking skill at fourth semester of English department of UNISMA. From the all, some point of the finding and discussion above, the use of zoom in speaking class did not give best result of the progress to be the best alternative learning media especially in speaking class because, there are many aspects influenced such as: less preparation to operate the application of zoom before faced the online learning, lack of the internet packages assistance which are able to support the use of media of zoom in speaking class, and also the place students live it could be influenced to the good quality of internet connection. Through the point triggered above, it could be concluded that:
a. The students were not enjoyed in using zoom in speaking class because the students perceived that the implementation the media was not relevant to be used in speaking class.
b. The atmosphere of the teaching learning process using zoom in speaking class was extremely boring, and there is no attractive activity that enable to students to be more active in learning. There is no an opportunity given by the lecturer to the students in conducting discussion to practice their speaking skill and also
there is no stimulation to make the students have the social interaction among their classmate and their lecturer.
c. the implementation of zoom in speaking was not relevant because there are some factors influenced such as: the less preparation to operate the zoom application in speaking class, lack of learning equipment facilities to support their learning in speaking class, internet packages assistance, range of place they live, and also the duration in using zoom in learning process especially in speaking. Therefore, it was difficult to the students manage the time, because they are coming from the distinct areas especially beyond of java which are difficult to synchronize the time.
6.2 Suggestion
After conducting a research about the students’ perception using zoom in speaking skill, the researcher found that it needed evaluation and stimulation in using zoom in speaking class, in order to get improvement in the future. As the result, there are several paramount important things as suggestion and hopefully can useful for.
a. The lecturer
The lecturer plays an important role in implementing the use of zoom in speaking class. Whatever the media will be implemented in learning and teaching process especially in speaking it is determined by the lecturer as the measurement the failure or the success in the learning process in speaking class. The lecturer compulsory to have alternative media and also the strategy to make the learning process of speaking run well. The lecturer compulsory to develop or find the other media when the use of zoom could not be utilizing maximally in speaking. The
lecturer also compulsory to prepare the stimulation in using zoom in speaking class before running learning process and providing the inspirable activity in using zoom in speaking which are able to attract students interest and students’ motivation so that the students did not felt the learning was boring.
b. The government
National education institution regulation in this pandemic obligating all the education institution to use online learning since the COVID-19 was attacked.
The government as the instructor to the regulation above, it expected able to fulfill the needs of learning process in all the education institution such as:
providing the learners and the teacher/ lecturer learning equipment facilities, supporting the internet packages assistance, so that the learning and teaching process still able to be run well as before with the aim to improve the quality of education.
c. Future research
This research can be used by other researchers as or reference to undertake the next research regarding to the students’ perception using zoom in speaking skill. It is recommended that future researcher can undertake the similar research in different level of school and teacher. Moreover, in this current eras the all education system obligated by the government in conducting virtual learning, it expected to the future research can analyze or develop the previous shortcoming experienced by the research in order to the development media of zoom able to be best alternative for the teaching and learning process especially in speaking
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