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International Journal of Research and Review
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20210817
Vol.8; Issue: 8; August 2021
Website: www.ijrrjournal.com
Research Paper E-ISSN: 2349-9788; P-ISSN: 2454-2237
The Effectiveness of Online Learning in Learning
Chinese Language
Ivana
Universitas Prima Indonesia, Indonesia
ABSTRACT Galen (2011) online learning requires
accessibility, connectivity, flexibility and
Mid-March 2020, Indonesia began to be hit by the ability to generate various types of
the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced the learning interactions. For most educators
government to set up online learning. The and students in Indonesia, online learning is
purpose of this study was to find out how
still very common, because education in
effectiveness online learning was applied by
Mandarin language educators at the junior high Indonesia, especially at the junior high
school level at Methodist Charles Wesley. school level, still uses traditional learning.
Analysis of the data used is data analysis Miles So this makes educators and students
and Huberman. The results of this study are: (1) have to learn more about technology, about
Educators and students have adequate facilities using online media for smooth learning
in online learning. (2) Online learning has processes during this pandemic. And this is
flexibility in its implementation. However, not an easy thing, especially in learning a
online learning has its own challenges, namely: language and especially in learning
weak internet signal, high internet costs and lack Mandarin, where learning is Even with
of teacher supervision of students. traditional learning methods, there are still
many difficulties and there are still many
Keywords: Online Learning, Effectiveness,
COVID-19 educators who are not ready to break away
from traditional learning (offline) and many
INTRODUCTION Mandarin language educators in the city of
The year 2020-2021 is a year that Medan who are over 40 years old and above
forces almost all people in Indonesia to use who do not understand the use of
information and communication technology technology, thus causing online learning.
in everyday life, especially in the field of more difficult. In addition, online learning
education. This is due to the COVID-19 requires a higher concentration or focus on
pandemic and to suppress the spread of this student learning. Therefore, the purpose of
virus, the government prohibits crowds and this research is to find out how effective
maintains physical distance, and stipulates online learning is in Mandarin lessons at the
that the entire learning process continues but junior high school level in the city of
uses distance learning or what is called Medan, especially the Methodist Charles
online learning. Wesley school during the COVID-19
Distance learning is a learning pandemic.
process that uses online media or what we
often call online learning. Online learning is RESEARCH METHODS
a medium during this pandemic that is able The type of research used by
to bring together educators and students to researchers in this study is a qualitative
carry out learning without face to face. research type with a data analysis model
According to Moore, Dickson-Deane and that is an analytical model of Miles and
Huberman (1994).
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The purpose of this study was to RESULT AND DISCUSSION
describe the situation of online learning of 1. Educators and Students Have
mandarin lessons carried out at the Adequate Facilities in the
Methodist Charles Wesley school. Implementation of Online Learning
The online learning referred to by The development of information and
the researcher is learning that uses learning communication technology is greatly
media that can be accessed via the internet influenced by the use of the internet,
network, namely: WhatsApp, Google Class, especially during this pandemic (Rahadian,
Google Meet and Zoom Meeting. 2017). At the beginning of 2021, it was
The research subjects were 14 recorded that 89% of Indonesia's population
people who were educators and junior high had smartphones, 42.57% of Indonesians
school students from the Methodist Charles owned computers/laptops and around 98.3%
Wesley school who used online learning and of Indonesians used the internet either
were grouped based on the responses of the through smartphones or computers. This
research subjects. Through the responses of data is relevant to the results of the data
the research subjects, it was found that: 1 obtained through interviews, where this data
educator under 30 years old, 1 educator shows that almost all Indonesians have
aged 31-45 years, 12 junior high school internet access either via smartphones or
students, 8 female and 6 male gender, each laptops and the interview results obtained
educator has experience teaching Mandarin that all educators and students have
above 5 years, while students have studied smartphones and laptops, as well as
Mandarin for more than 5 years as well. adequate internet.
The initial research was conducted by There have been many studies on the
providing a survey using a Google form via importance of using smartphones and
the WhatsApp application to educators and laptops in online learning, especially to help
students. To get accurate research results, students access the internet (Chan, Walker,
the researcher arranged several questions to and Gleaves, 2015). Educators can take
explore and obtain information from advantage of the WhatsApp, Google Class,
respondents. And the following are the Google Meet or Zoom Meeting applications
questions that the researcher asked: in carrying out online learning. The most
1. How are the facilities and infrastructure frequently used learning application is
owned by educators and students in Google Class, where educators can
online learning? distribute materials, assignments and
2. How effective is online learning in quizzes in a neat and orderly manner, but it
learning Chinese? has a weakness, which is that educators
The data analysis that the researcher cannot interact directly with students, so
uses is the analysis model of Miles and educators often interact via WhatsApp
Huberman (1994) which consists of 3 media for sessions question and answer.
stages: data reduction (the stage of Besides Google Class and
collecting data from interviews conducted, WhatsApp, the applications that are often
then the data is grouped), displaying data used are Zoom Meeting and Google Meet.
(the stage of explaining the required data, At the beginning of online learning,
data that is not needed, discarded), as well educators were a little overwhelmed; where
as drawing and verifying conclusions (data educators were not very familiar with this
interpretation stage to draw conclusions technology, but schools provided a lot of
according to the phenomena obtained). training for educators, so educators could
slowly understand how to use it. The
advantages of zoom meetings and Google
Meet are that educators can carry out
learning directly with students, but the
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disadvantage of zoom meetings is the time more creative in presenting material, and
limit given for users who do not pay (40 educators are required to use video
minutes), so often educators have not recording and editing more often, which
finished explaining, the meeting has ended used to be educators never do so, so
and students must re-join, this causes the educators should devote more time to
learning process is not optimal. Zoom material preparation. Students are also
meetings and Google Meet both have burdened with more assignments than usual,
shortcomings in terms of quota. The quota because in online learning every time after
used is much larger than Google Class or learning there will be an assignment, in
WhatsApp, so if you do online learning contrast to face-to-face learning which
from home, educators have to buy more sometimes does it in class.
quota and many educators are starting to use However, educators are still satisfied
wifi to save funds for purchasing quotas. with online learning, because the material
However, after permission from the provided by educators is more organized
government for educators to do online and organized. This makes it easier for
learning from schools, this is no longer a students to repeat lessons and students can
problem for educators, because the school access the material freely without being
provides wifi facilities in schools. However, limited by time, which if there is a student
it remains an obstacle for students because who is sick, has permission and does not
not all parents can provide sufficient quota. attend class, can get the material easily. The
Online learning using video conferencing is assignments given by educators are also
quite expensive (Naserly, 2020). very organized and have clearer collection
In addition, internet services are less limits. This can make it easier for educators,
stable, where students often complain about students and parents to pay attention to
no signal or weak signal network, which student learning.
causes students not to be able to participate Sun et al. (2008) in the study stated
in online learning and often get permission, that satisfaction with learning is influenced
so this is a new challenge for educators by three things, namely flexibility of time,
when doing online learning. Online learning learning methods and place. In addition to
has a weakness, namely when internet educators, students are also happy with
services are weak, the teacher's instructions online learning, which is known from
are less understood by students (Astuti and student activity, where students actively
Febrian 2019). give opinions because they feel more
comfortable and more confident when
2. Effectiveness of Online Learning learning online. Research Sun et al. relevant
Online learning conducted by to the data obtained, where students are
Methodist Charles Wesley middle school more active in expressing their opinions and
uses learning applications that can be answering questions.
accessed via the internet. Judging from the The results also state that online
answers to the questionnaire, educators and learning has its own challenges, where
students are happy with the practical and educators and students do not meet directly
flexible learning process, because it is not in the learning process. When conducting
constrained by space and time, but virtual classes such as using Zoom or
educators are a little overwhelmed with Google Meet media, many students do not
material preparation. The way in which the turn on the video, so when educators explain
material provided in online learning is the material, educators cannot ensure that
delivered will be slightly different from the students really listen to the explanation and
way in which traditional or conventional really understand the material, so online
learning materials are delivered, in which learning really requires parental cooperation
educators are required to be more creative, to help supervise students. And in doing
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