Last modified: 2022-04-21
Abstract
Education is becoming increasingly affected by technology since Covid-19 happened. Education has only grown over the last decade, it given increasing prevalence of online learning that offers many advantages and disadvantages to both teachers and students. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of online learning compared to face-to-face learning for English as a foreign language (EFL) learner in Management class. The participants were fifty EFL students of Management Study Program in Universitas Muhammadiyah Palembang. Twenty-five students were put in online group learning and twenty-five students in face-to-face group learning. The study used survey to know the student’s perception of learning between online and face-to-face. Pre-test and post-test would be measured by using statistical data as one measure of learning outcomes. The result showed that students who took all or part of their class face-to-face perform better than those who only had access to online instruction. It meant that learning activities could be effective for face-to-face learning than online learning.