Open AccessAnxiety and Associated Factors with Online Learning in the COVID-19 Pandemic among the EFL Students at Higher Institution in Indonesia
Author(s) -
Sukardi Weda,
Haryanto Atmowardoyo,
Andi Riola Pasenrigading,
Andi Elsa Fadhilah Sakti
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of scientific and management research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2581-6888
DOI - 10.37502/ijsmr.2022.5215
Subject(s) - anxiety , psychology , the internet , class (philosophy) , covid-19 , pandemic , institution , mathematics education , observational study , medical education , test (biology) , pedagogy , sociology , medicine , computer science , social science , disease , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , world wide web , infectious disease (medical specialty) , paleontology , pathology , biology
Online learning is defined as learning that takes place partially or entirely over the Internet which excludes purely print-based correspondence education, broadcast television or radio, videoconferencing, videocassettes, and stand-alone educational software programs that do not have a significant internet-based instructional component (Means et al., 2009). It is a crosssectional, observational study. The objective of the present study was to investigate the level of anxiety in online learning in Covid-19 pandemic among the English students from different study programs at the Faculty of Languages and Literature, State University of Makassar in 2020/2021 academic year. There were 71 respondents in this study, 64 or 79% female and 17 or 21% male with a mean age of 21.5 (SD= 2.44949). They are undergraduate students and graduate students of State University of Makassar, Indonesia. Anxiety scale 18 questionnaires adapted from MacIntyre & Gardner (1994) were given for assessment of anxiety. The study concludes that: 1) the students feel anxious during English tests online when they have not prepared their time well before the test, 2) they feel anxious if English online class is not well organized, 3) they may know the proper English expression but when they are nervous it just won't come out, and 4) they get upset when they know how to communicate something in English in online class but they just cannot verbalize what they mean. The associated factors with the online learning as other evidences of this study are: 1) immature preparations, 2) unorganized class, 3) nervous, 4) get upset.