Investigating urban and rural students’ practice and challenges in distance learning

Yulinda Septianing Putri, Endang Setyaningsih, Kristian Adi Putra

Abstract


The sudden shift from face-to-face learning to distance one gives rise to several different perceptions. Thus, this paper aims to investigate the perception of EFL students in experiencing distance learning. The participants are EFL students from rural schools and urban schools in Indonesia. The study scrutinizes how the participant experiences learning activities as well as encounters the challenges in distance education. To analyse the data, open-ended interview question was distributed online by using WhatsApp and Google-form platform. The result reveals that the implementation of distance learning has both positive and negative impact, however most of them agree that distance education implementation is more challenging, specifically dealing with the use of technology as they need to maximize many online applications provided on the internet. They acknowledge that technology is a good instrument with many purposes, and that it is a useful and most relevant platform which can be utilized in distance education. Additionally, the students tried many ways to minimize challenges or obstacles in their online learning. Furthermore, the result of this study will be useful for the teacher to maximize teaching and learning process as it provides challenges and obstacles encountered by the students in engaging with distance education implementation.

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