Students’ Perception on Learning Reading Comprehension Through Google Meet in English Development Class

Abstract

The Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global problem that has an impact throughout the world, one of which is Indonesia. This is in line with the English Development Class 29 at IAIN Purwokerto which applies the Google Meet application in reading comprehension lessons. The aim of this research is to investigate students’ perception of using Google Meet in reading comprehension class. The method of this research used is a collaboration between quantitative and qualitative. The researchers used interview 4 students as a sample via chat Whatsapp and survey applied respondents answer sheets of any statement submitted via Google Form. The results are Google Meet is an online learning media that is easily accessible by students and students are greatly helped by the existence of Google Meet during the online learning. Some of students (8,9%) strongly agree, most students (80%) agree that the used of Google Meet caused material understanding easier and some students are disagree (11,1%) because of some obstacles they have. The conclusion of this research is students perception in the use of the Google Meet especially in learning reading comprehension proved to be effective.