EFL University Students’ Perception of the Use of Online Learning Platform in the COVID 19 Pandemic

Abstract

This study aims to describe the EFL university students’ perception of the use of online learning platform in the covid 19 pandemic and to examine the difference in students’ perception based on gender. The researcher conducted a quantitative using survey design method. The sample of this study was 80 students consists of 40 male and 40 female students of sixth year of the English Education of Universitas Islam Malang. The data of the study was collected by students’ perception of online learning platform questionnaire in an online way using google form. The data were analyzed by using SPSS version 20 in the form of descriptive statistics and independent T-test. The result of the study showed that the EFL students’ perception of the use of online learning platforms are positive as indicate by the mean of 3.24. The other finding showed that the higest mean of students’ perception was (3.78). It means that online learning platform give advantage for students such as saves time and effort by doing and submitting an assignment electronically followed by the higest mean of students' challenges (3.32). It means that stuents need to learn some troubleshooting technology task to help them when using online learning platform. The finding was also showed that the researcher’s hypothesis was accepted because of the sig. (2-tailed) of the independent T-test was .006 (≤ .05). So, there is a significant difference between male and female of the use of online learning platform. Male students more like use online learning platforms for online learning than female students. Based on the result, it was suggested for the English lecturer was expected to be able to see the abilities of students in using online learning platform. The lecturer must create a module for learning troubleshooting in using online learning platform. Future researchers also can conduct similir research about students’ perception with adding an interviews for collecting the data and analyze more in depth the differences of the use of online learning platforms based on gender.