PERCEPTION TOWARDS ENGLISH WEBINAR AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS IN ASSISTING ENGLISH LEARNING DURING PANDEMIC COVID-19

Devanny Patricia Inkiriwang, Marlin Steffy Marpaung

Abstract


The purpose of this study is to find out colleges’ perceptions towards English webinars held during the pandemic to assist their English learning. The population included some colleges from random subjects in a private and stated university who had attended an English webinar and the sample of the population was taken using purposive sampling which focuses on seventh and eighth-semester colleges. The collected data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The result demonstrates that English webinars can assist colleges in learning English during the pandemic however, they also face some challenges while learning English through English webinars.

Keywords


Perception, English language webinar, English learning, Covid-19

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.52657/js.v8i1.1995

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