Students’ Perceptions on Virtual Discussion of Learning English for Specific Purposes

Students’ Perceptions on Virtual Discussion of Learning English for Specific Purposes

• By Zulfa, Puspa Fortuna;
• Jurnal Nasional Terakreditasi
• 50
• 49-60

The learning process in the pandemic era triggered the enhancement of technology utilization. The virtual discussion was then used for compensating the absence of face to face learning process. It also happened in the learning process for English for specific purposes (ESP). This research aimed to find out and describe the students’ perceptions about virtual discussion conducted by the lecturer for some meetings according to the campus’ syllabus. Descriptive research was used as this research design. The data was collected from questionnaire-interview (Questaview) containing some questions to enlist students’ views which were distributed to 3 classes, they were two Information System classes and an Accounting Information System class. The sample of this research was just 30% of the entire students which were 22 students for representing the population. Then, using qualitative analysis for analyzing the data, the researcher described the students’ opinion on virtual discussion of learning English for specific purposes. The result showed that virtual discussion had positive and negative effects to comprehend the material, less acceptance of English material, less practice, yet the flexibility of learning time and re-reading material could be approved by the students. At the last opinion, the students stated their wishes in conducting double ways consecutively, both online and offline for obtaining the useful benefits from those two.

• Katakunci ESP; Students’ Perceptions; Virtual Discussion
• URL http://jurnal.utu.ac.id/IJELR/article/view/6545
• Penerbit IJELR: International Journal of Education, Language and Religion, Aceh Aceh

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