Teacher’s Strategy to Boost Students’ Interest in Studying English through Zoom Meeting Application at the Tenth Grade of SMAN 9 Malang

Abstract

During this virtual learning conditions, media is very important to make learning activities in the classroom run optimally with the help of technological innovation such as Zoom Meeting Applications. However, in the pandemic era, learning and teaching must be continued online, in distance learning. This study aims to find out the teacher's strategy in teaching English and to know that students' interest in studying English at the tenth grade of SMAN 9 Malang. Besides, interest in learning English becomes a key factor for successful conversational ability among students influencing them to learn English. This research used qualitative research and the subject of this research are from both X IPS 1 & X IPS 2 that were 5 students and 1 teacher of SMAN 9 Malang. In investigating students and teacher’s perspective, the researcher used interview as the instrument for collecting data. Furthermore, the questions are adapted from Nurhamidah (2012) and Rindiani (2021) which has been validated. The findings of this study showed the students’ perceptions toward teacher’s strategy were positive. Students said that teacher’s strategy which used discourse strategy by explaining the material at beginning of the study can ease students understanding and increase vocabularies. Unfortunately, most students’ perceptions toward using Zoom Meeting Application were negative which students and teacher got some troubles, such as bad internet connection and underestimating the learning. The researcher suggested the lecturers must share more interesting materials conducted during online English learning. The teacher should also give more interesting material concepts to conduct the study which it can be given to the students even though the situation was not a comforting figure because of the Covid-19 pandemic. This research is expected to be useful for other researchers and can be a reference or inspiration for future researchers who conducted research about students’ interest in studying English through Zoom Meeting Application.

Keywords: Strategy, Interest, Zoom Meeting Application