Learning Writing Experience: A Comparative Study Between Offline and Online Writing Learning in Junior High School

Many researchers have conducted research on online learning systems, but in Indonesia, online learning experiences occur more during the COVID-19 pandemic, including junior high school students. Students switch from learning writing in the classroom to distance learning (online). This resulted in students undergoing two different experiences in learning to write EFL. Seeing this, the authorsried to conduct research on the comparison of student satisfaction in learning writing between offline and online classes. The subjects of this study were 40 students of 8th-grade junior high school from UPT SMP Negeri 32 Gresik. The method was a mixed method using questionnaires and interviews. The results indicated that there were valid differences between offline and online students' writing learning satisfaction. From the independent sample T-Test, it is stated that the value of sig. tailed 2 is 0.000 <0.05, which means that the results were proved to be valid and showed a satisfaction score difference between learning writing in offline and online classes. The authors also describe the findings of the comparison into the following three factors, namely instructor-related factor, learner-related factor, and learning environment-related factor. The conclusion obtained is that students prefer to learn writing in offline classes, but the experience gained from learning writing online is very good and has its own satisfaction value.