AN ANALYSIS ON STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS IN SPEAKING COURSE DURING ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING

Nowdays, Indonesia government uses Large-Scale Social Restrictions to spread covid-19 to all of the Indonesia’s public. Covid-19 make many changes in the economic system, social life, and education. However, many institution pay attention on education. Which uses online learning to prevent covid-19 virus and decrease people’s movement. The government applying learn at home during this pandemic. Learning alternative model for E-learning is synchronous and asynchronous learning based on the learners’ conditions and situations. Synchronous and asynchronous are the dynamic learning method on learning activity. This reaserch is aimed to analysis students’ perceptions on speaking course during asynchronous learning. This reaserch used qualitative descriptive method to analyze the students perceptions on the speaking course during asynchronous. This research use questionnaire, interview and reflective journal to collect the data of students’ perceptions. The result of this research showed that a half (50%) of students stated that asynchronous learning suitable use for speaking course in Covid-19 crisis. This research also shows the perception of students understanding and student acceptance. The result of students understanding are stated that 50% of students understand the material given by lecturer. The result of students acceptance stated that 55,6% of the students give neutral answer for enjoy the learning process and 22,2% of students are agree enjoy the learning process during asynchronous learning in speaking course. This research concluded that speaking course during asynchronous learning are suitable to use in Covid-19 era, flexible to use, and fun to learn speaking use asynchronous learning. Students also understand the material given by lecturer and lecturer give respons for students questions. But, the obstacle in learning process are poor internet connection.