Webtoon Short Story in English Online Class: Students’ Perception

The enforcement of online learning system has led new coercion of circumstances in education. No preparation in such condition got the teachers shocked, thus might had sudden actions to prepare their online class by preparing varieties of media. Webtoon short story was one of the alternative media used by teachers during covid-19. This paper discusses the findings of a study carried out to investigate the students’ perception on webtoon short story in English classroom. The focus of this article was on students’ point of view, students’ manners and the students’ thought in applying webtoon short story in English class. The sample was taken from three Senior High School in Pekanbaru at the grade eleventh. Questionnaire and interview were used to get the data. The findings of the study obtained from the quantitative showed that the statistical result indicated students’ perception and interest on webtoon short story were positive and significantly shown in high level while in qualitative approaches showed that webtoon short stories used in English class was interesting, motivating and enjoying.