Ummi Khaerati Syam
Universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar,Indonesia

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TEACHERS’ DIFFICULTIES IN ONLINE ASSESSMENT FOR STUDENTS IN TEACHING ENGLISH DURING PANDEMICS Musdalifah; Ummi Khaerati Syam; Andi Asri Jumiaty
Journal of Language Testing and Assessment Vol. 2 No. 1 (2022): Journal of Language Testing and Assessment (JLTA)
Publisher : FKIP Unismuh Makassar

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (472.334 KB) | DOI: 10.56983/jlta.v2i1.12

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the government announced that learning would be moved online. This results in teacher assessments of students having to be done online. This research was conducted to find out how online assessment is applied by teachers in schools, especially in learning English. This study aims to determine whether teachers have difficulties and what difficulties are encountered by teachers in conducting online assessments, as well as how teachers overcome their difficulties. This study uses qualitative research methods and the subject of this research is an English teacher in SMPN 4 Bantimurung Kab. Maros. This study uses interviews and questionnaires as research instruments, interview questions and questionnaires to find out the difficulties of teachers in conducting online assessments and the implementation during the covid-19 pandemic.
Exploring Students’ Difficulties in Learning Listening Comprehension at Second Semester English Education Department of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar Nurinda Permatasari; Ummi Khaerati Syam; Ika Sastrawati
Journal of Language Testing and Assessment Vol. 3 No. 1 (2023): JLTA:Journal of Language Testing and Assessment
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.56983/jlta.v3i1.313

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The results of the research from questionnaires and FGD showed that there were seven difficulties faced by students when studying listening comprehension based on listening material factors. First, the difficulty of unfamilliar words. 50% of students have this difficulty because they lack vocabulary. second, the difficulty of unfamiliar topics. students find it difficult when trying to understand the discourse, 40% experienced by students. third, difficulties in interpreting the meaning of spoken texts, especially when dealing with words that have multiple meanings, were also experienced by 40% of students in this study. fourth, difficulty due to the length of the spoken text which causes loss of concentration and motivation of students due to boredom, 60% of students find it difficult with the length of the spoken text. fifth, the difficulty in the type of input (eg the type of input from direct teaching by the lecturer) the fact that the listening comprehension class faced by the respondents was an online class, which made students experience various problems such as disruption of the teaching and learning process. the process of receiving information from lecturers due to unstable networks in some areas. sixth, 60% of students face difficulties in verbal instruction, because lecturers or native speakers have different accents and the last is difficulty in understanding when the speaker speaks very fast, based on the findings of this study it was found that the speaker's speaking speed is a difficulty experienced by all students.