An Analysis Of Students' Challenges In Field Experience (PPL) During Covid-19 At English Language Education Of FKIP UIR

Angraini, Silva (2022) An Analysis Of Students' Challenges In Field Experience (PPL) During Covid-19 At English Language Education Of FKIP UIR. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

Challenges are the problems or difficulties that were faced by prospective teachers in learning English as a foreign language. In the midst of the Covid-19 outbreak, school and university doing the field experience (PPL) activities are carrying out new normal situation. There were 5 categories that were classified by Bartell (2005); procedural, managerial, psychological, instructional, and professional. This research aims to investigate the challenges that were faced by prospective teachers and what they did in dealing with their challenges. This research applied descriptive qualitative method in investigating the demographic data of students’ challenges in field experience (PPL). The population of this research was seventh semester students of English Language Education of FKIP UIR, while the sample was selected through random sampling technique that consist of 20 students. It also applied questionnaires in the Google form and interviews through zoom meeting that was adapted from Bartell (2005). There were 25 items on the questionnaires and 7 items on the interviews that answered by prospective teachers. The answers of the first question in this research question were the result of this study indicated that prospective teachers predominantly faced difficulties in the procedural category. This can be seen based on the result of the percentage of students’ challenges in filed experience (PPL), namely Procedural category 59,8%, Managerial category 59,4%, Psychological category 57,0%, Instructional category 58,6%, Professional category 56,6%. This shown that prospective teachers at Universitas Islam Riau especially seventh semester students faced challenges in adapting the classroom in field experience as well as difficulties in getting students attention, giving references, and creating the lesson. Meanwhile, the answer of the second question of the research question was the prospective teachers highlighted their mistakes and learnt from their mistakes and made improvements in the future.

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