Students’ Perception on the use of Google Classroom in Teaching and Learning during Pandemic of Covid-19

This study aimed to investigate the students ‘perception and challenge in learning by using Google Classroom especially in the current pandemic of Covid-19. The present study used a literature review as the design to collect the data. Related studies about students ‘perception and challenge on Google Classroom in teaching and learning were analyzed to be described in the present study. The finding of this study showed that students have positive perception toward the use of Google Classroom in learning and it was useful in teaching. However, students ‘accessibility and connectivity were the most challenging in learning through Google Classroom during the pandemic.

Implementation of Total Physical Response (TPR) in English Learning for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Students

English becomes an international language to help people who have different mother tongue to communicate each other. Learning English is very important because it also helps to increase the quality of human resource. Each individual has right to learn English without exception. Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder also can learn English. This study aimed is to describe the process implementation of Total Physical Response method in teaching English and the response from students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. This study uses descriptive qualitative as research design with observation and interview. The participants in this study are five students who have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in one of special need schools in Bali. The result of this study shows that implementing Total Physical Response method, students are easy to remember the new words in English and they also practice the word physically and verbally. Total Physical Response method makes students feeling comfortable and enjoy in teaching and learning process. They are also being motivated and active in the English class. Keywords: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, English language teaching, TPR method

Students’ Perception of Google Classroom Implementation as Online Learning Media

The aim of this study was to discover high school students’ general perception about the implementation of Google Classroom as an online learning media, and the factors that influenced the development of the perception. This research used Mixed-method research design as described by Creswell (2014). Subject of this study was the student population of SMAS Lab Undiksha Singaraja. The instruments used for this research were Questionnaire and Interview Guide. The instruments were tested by using Gregory Formula Method and Cronbach-Alpha method. The data that have been obtained was analyzed using quantitative and qualitative method. The result of the research showed that the students of SMAS Lab Undiksha Singaraja held a positive view on the benefits of Google Classroom and its implementation as online learning media. Factors that have influenced this perception are Google Classroom’s ubiquity, students’ familiarity with Google Classroom, Google Classroom’s ease of use and stability in comparison to other similar applications.

Challenges of EFL Teacher in Conducting Online Learning at SMA Candimas Pancasari

The purpose of this study was to determine the teachers' challenge in conducting online learning at SMA Candimas Pancasari The design of this research is descriptive qualitative. In this study, the challenges of teachers in online teaching were analyzed and described descriptively. The findings in this study are about the challenges of teachers in conducting online learning at SMA Candimas Pancasari and how to overcome the challenges. Internet connection is one of the main challenges in online teaching. Internet connection is influential in online learning because some teachers and students live in difficult signal areas. This poor internet connection makes online learning unable to be 100% effective. Teachers have ways of overcoming these challenges by way of offline (LURING) for some students who have problems and provide a schedule to come to school. Teachers can overcome these challenges with various strategies during online learning.

Improving Students' Vocabulary Mastery through Jigsaw Techniques in 21st Century

This paper investigates an effective technique that can improve fifth-grade students' vocabulary mastery. Thus some researchers agree that effective teaching techniques that can improve vocabulary mastery are Jigsaw techniques. Many researchers have researched students to the general public in different places. The researcher almost found the same problem experienced by the learners in mastery vocabulary such as pronunciation, spelling, hard to understand, and the general problem: boredom and disinterest. However, to overcome these problems, the researcher use library methods research to collect the data and investigate the effectiveness of using Jigsaw techniques. Therefore, the finding showed that using Jigsaw techniques for the learners would be a great technique to improve their vocabulary mastery.

Investigation of Students’ Perception of Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) on Reading Comprehension in SMPN 1 Abang

Assisting students to have good reading comprehension is essential to be accomplished during learning. Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) comes as the most used strategy to promote students’ literacy and build their reading comprehension based on the pre-observation in junior high schools in Karangasem Regency. This study aimed to investigate students’ perception of using SSR to enhance students’ reading comprehension in SMPN 1 Abang. The design of the study was mixed-method. The setting of this study is SMPN 1 Abang, located in Abang district, Karangasem regency, Bali province. This study used a questionnaire as the instrument of this study. The type of questionnaire used is a mail survey, specifically the questionnaire created in scale items by using Likert-type questions. As the study results, the mean score was categorized as very high because it was 4.50 and the interval was 4.00<M<5.00. In other words, the student's perception of using SSR to enhance students’ reading comprehension in SMPN 1 Abang showed very positive qualifications. Thus, it implies that SSR is helpful to improve students’ reading comprehension.

Students’ Perception toward the Use of Google Classroom as Teaching and Learning English Media for EFL Students

This study aimed to investigate students’ perception toward the use of google classroom as a media for teaching language. This study is a library study. This study was focused on collecting information about the definition of Google Classroom, students’ perception toward the use of google classroom, and the performance of google classroom in language learning. Google classroom is one of the platforms that used to provide the material, task, information about the course to the students that given by the teacher by online. Google classroom help the students and also the teacher to make the learning process easier during the Covid-19 pandemic. Google Classroom gave students and teacher chance to keep doing the course during the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, this platform gets positive responses from many students. Most students were agreed that google classroom easy to be used and have good performance since it helps the students to save the file or the material that given by the teacher through google classroom easily, and also students can easily submit their work in this platform. By using Google Classroom, the teacher could do many things, such as assigned quiz to the students, gave the students video for additional source of the study, the teacher also could link many applications such as Quizizz, Google Form, Google Drive, and many more.

Exploring Readiness of Teachers Toward Remote English Teaching Context

Remote English teaching becomes a trend during the pandemic of Covid-19 outbreak. Schools in Indonesia are forced to conduct teaching and learning activity remotely during Work from Home (WFH) regulation. However, not all teachers were ready to teach virtually. This study aimed at investigating the teachers’ and students’ readiness toward remote English teaching. The subject were the English teachers at SMAN 1 Kubutambahan. An explanatory sequential mixed-method design was implemented in this research. The data were collected through an online survey and followed up with an interview. The data were collected through an online survey and analysed using Ideal Mean score analysis. The survey used a questionnaire which contain four dimensions, namely technology, innovation, people, and self-development to investigate the teachers’ and students’ readiness level. The research finding showed that English teachers were categorized in the ready category, which means they were ready in conducting remote English teaching. The result of this research can be used as an evaluation for the teacher in order to improve their readiness level in the future.

Analysis of Teachers’ Challenges in Teaching Speaking Through Online Learning during Covid-19 Pandemic in SMAN 2 Abiansemal

ABSTRACT This research aims at at finding out 1) the challenges of the teachers in teaching speaking during online learning in SMAN 2 Abiansemal, 2) the teachers’ ways to cope with the challenges in teaching speaking during online learning in SMAN 2 Abiansemal and 3) the strengths and the weaknesses of the strategy used by the investigated teachers during online learning in teaching speaking. The subjecs of this research were three English teachers in SMAN 2 Abiansemal. To collect the data, two instruments were needed, observation sheet and interview guide. The obtained data were analyzed qualitative by using Interactively Data Analysis Model by Miles and Huberman (1994). This research discovers 1) 9 challenges in online learning, 2) 9 ways to cope the challenges, and 3) 9 weaknesses and strengths of the strategy.

Impact of School from Home in Teaching and Learning English for Young Learners

The objectives of this study were to examine the impact of school from home in teaching and learning English for young learners. This study employed a case study approach, which is an embedded single-case design. A set of questionnaires was distributed to twelve young learners in the fourth grade of an elementary school in Singaraja and one English teacher. The young learners in this study were selected with purposive sampling, where participants were selected based on their parents' and teachers’ consent. Furthermore, an interview was also conducted with one English teacher from an elementary school in Singaraja to obtain the supplementary data. The findings indicate that the impact of school from home in teaching and learning English had some positive and negative impacts. Therefore, this study ends with suggestions for teachers and parents during school from home.