THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ZOOM MEETING AS ONLINE LEARNING MEDIA IN PUBLIC SPEAKING CLASS (A Case Study in Fourth Semester of a University in Ciamis)

Abstract

This study aims to describe to what extent is zoom meeting effective in speaking class, and to investigate what are the difficulties of using zoom meeting faced by students. Case study was used as a research design in this study, with the participants from fourth semester in the English education program of a university in Ciamis. Questionnaire, and semi-structured interviews analyses are selected as a tool for collecting research data. This research was conducted to add a literature study regarding the effectiveness of zoom meeting as an online learning media in public speaking class from the students’ perspective. The result of this study is that the students felt that zoom meeting application was good enough to be applied as an online learning in speaking class. The students also feel quite memorable in using the Zoom Meeting application as an online learning media in public speaking class because the features in the zoom meeting application make it easy for the students to communicate with the lecturer or the other students. Also, the features of Zoom Meeting application can make the learning activities colorful, and attractive by using background filters, face filters, emoji, and the student can send direct messages to the other student without no one knowing. In using the Zoom Meeting application, the students feel that there are some difficulties which make the learning activities uncomfortable. There are the difficulties including consuming a lot of internet quota, needing so many signals to operate, restrictions on the use of time, and always other disturbances such as noise from passing vehicles. As a suggestion the researcher suggests the lecturer to be able to provide a new method and can control the students during learning activities. Then, for students the researcher suggests that the students should have more likes, interests, and participated in speaking practices.