Voices of the Newly Users’ of Online-learning during Covid-19: Bridging to be EFL independent Readers

Erna Iftanti, 197203072009012002 (2020) Voices of the Newly Users’ of Online-learning during Covid-19: Bridging to be EFL independent Readers. Faculty of Adab and Cultural Sciences UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Jogyakarta. ISBN ISSN: 2715-0550

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Abstract

The Corona pandemic which has splashily spread to this universe has affected all people’s field of life. In common, people of any age and status do not only socially, economically, psychologically, but also culturally suffered. The classroom learning culture is not anymore suitably employed. The EFL students who used to be dependents much on their teachers to acquire English language should change into online learning. They become the newly users of this online learning. There are many online learning applications, one of them is Schoology. This article is then intended to portray the voices of the EFL students who took Inferential Reading Comprehension Course on their use of online learning application during Covid-19 pandemic in relation to become independent readers. The qualitative data were obtained through distributing questionnaire to EFL tertiary students of a state Islamic University in a district of East Java Indonesia. They were taking Inferential reading class. The number of respondents getting involved in this small survey is 58 students. The finding of this study in one hand indicates that for the newly users of online learning application, employing Schoology is not better than classroom instruction for some reasons, such as adaptation to online application, time management, financial support, connection, emotional support of the lecturer, and reading schemata. On the other hand, the awareness of the existing Covid-19 pandemic has forced some of them to adapt with the online learning activities even though they face the above mention obstacles. This even leads them feel to be more independent readers which they believe to be able to trigger them to become independent learners.

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