SALTeL Journal (Southeast Asia Language Teaching and Learning)
Vol. 5 No. 2: July 2022

Perception of Teacher and Students toward Whatsapp Use for English as Foreign Language Distance Learning

Mujahidah (Institut Agama Islam Negeri Parepare)
Arif Rahman (Institut Agama Islam Negeri Parepare)
Sulastri (Universitas Mulism Indonesia)
Areski Wahid (Universitas Negeri Makassar)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Jul 2022

Abstract

The difficulty that students faced right now is students cannot adapt to Distance Learning and started the network that they used. WhatsApp is only a communication application, that is not learning media, but they are used for the learning process. Based on the problem above the researcher want to know teachers' and students’ perception about the use of WhatsApp as a media in English subject in teaching-learning. The method that was used in this research is the Qualitative Descriptive approach, the respondents of the study were 1 teacher and 21 students as an informant. The data was collected by using an observation guide, interview guide, and documentation. The researcher found the data conducted from the data that Perception of Teachers by using WhatsApp in the learning process more efficient and make students easily receive the material and apply their assignment but is not effective. There are pros and contras to the use of WhatsApp in students, points that students’ pro such as helping students communicate with their teacher, the contra points such as the internet connection is unstable. Also, the advantages of WhatsApp such as there are no time and place restrictions and the disadvantages such as preparing funds for purchasing quotas.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

SALTeL

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Southeast Asia Language Teaching and Learning (SALTeL) is a double-blind peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to promoting scholarly exchange among teachers and researchers in the field of Language Teaching. The journal is published online twice a year. The scope of SALTeL includes the ...