| dc.description.abstract | The COVID-19 pandemic which has spread all over the world recently has
changed many aspects of human life, even on the educational side. Since this
pandemic requires every level of educations to conduct the teaching and learning
classes in online courses, all aspects of educations perceived the benefits and even
the difficulties through this online course method. The issues of advantages and
disadvantages of online learning may also be found in a language learning
context, especially in listening courses, since this course is usually done face-toface
in a silent and focused class’ condition. Therefore, this study aimed at
measuring the undergraduate students’ perceptions on the online listening courses
during this COVID-19 pandemic.
This study used a quantitative research design with the survey research
method. Random sampling was used as the technique of determining the subjects
of this study. The population here was all undergraduate students of the English
Education Department UNISMA who had already attended the online listening
courses. The instrument used in this study was online questionnaire consist of 30
statements with the 4-scales of the Likert scale. The validity and reliability of the
instrument were measured before it was delivered to the real participants of the
study. The samples who responded to the questionnaire in Google Form were 74
students from the first semester until the sixth semester of undergraduate English
students of UNISMA.
In analyzing the data, the researcher used the average formula of Google
Spreadsheet. The findings were analyzed by the whole average score from the
highest to the lowest result. A high score indicates that the respondents perceive
agreement with the questionnaire item whereas a low score implies that they do
not agree with the statement in the item. Moreover, the average of every part of
the questionnaire will also be analyzed to explore the respondents’ perception of
each item of the questionnaire. Then, the result of each number was compared to
the total of 4 scores on the scale. If the result is higher than 2, which is half of the
4 scales, it means the good perception result of the item is high, and vice versa.
The main finding in this study showed that every item of the questionnaire
got high response from the participants. All of them gained above 2 scores on the
4 scale. It can be concluded that the majority of the students agreed that online
listening courses were suitable and comfortable to join the teaching and learning process of listening in this pandemic era. However, the students’ perceived
difficulties towards this online listening method were also positive. It can be
concluded that although the students feel that online listening courses were
beneficial for them in the learning process in the pandemic condition, they still
have difficulties in doing this kind of learning method. Therefore, online listening
courses do have a positive side for the students, but the problems that they feel are
also need to get more attention.
The suggestions were given to listening lecturers and to future researchers
who want to conduct similar research for further studies. For the lecturers, they
can apply some applications in the process of teaching listening online such as
WhatsApp, YouTube, Google Classroom, Google Form, Zoom, Edmodo,
Facebook, etc. These variations will help to make the students not bored in joining
online listening courses. The lecturers also can choose the appropriate materials
based on the topic to increase students’ interest in learning to listen online. While
for future researchers, they can use a mix-method research design in which the
researchers can include open-ended interviews for the respondents in order to get
deeper analysis. They also can conduct a similar study yet to the different
participants and may be conducted to measure the specific tool to teach listening
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