Evaluation of Online Teaching of Skill and Theory Subject of Japanese Language during Covid-19 Pandemic

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The Covid-19 pandemic that affected Indonesia has started since March 2020. As a result of this pandemic, people's lives have been disrupted and crippled. One of the fields that has been affected is Dr.Soetomo University learning method that formerly had been carried out offline to become online through various learning applications such as WhatsApp, Zoom, Google Classroom, and e-learning. The research problem of this article was the positive and negative impacts of online learning on the skillbased subjectsuch as ShokyuuChoukai Ge and theory-based subject such as OuyouNihongogaku. Based on students‘ opinions received through WhatsApp messages, the positive impacts of this online learning were students can understand choukai material more thoroughly because it is given and can be done prior to the lesson, students were more confident and courageous in answering questions or discussing choukai, the materials could be reviewed more than once instead of only when the lecturer was in presence for OuyouNihongogaku lesson, lessons could be attended while working, and students received more knowledge about new technology. Conversely, the negative impacts of online learning were signal problems, the mismatching of scheduled lesson hour because of technical/nontechnical issues, the difficulty of coordination and limited discussion time within student groups, lack of supervision that can cause students to get distracted to open social media or play games, and health issues. Although the result of this article indirectly has
similarities and differences with previous research, this article uses the students of the Japanese Department of Dr.Soetomo University with different lesson subjects as the research subjects. The conclusion was that the positive impacts of online learning such as intensified lesson instruction, additional opportunity to ask and review material after the lesson, needed to maintain and the negative impacts need to be reduced.