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Students' Difficulties in Comprehending Material from WhatsApp Voice Note on Sociolinguistic Online Learning at the Sixth Semester of TBI IAIN Madura Academic Year 2021/2022
Keyword : Students Difficulties, WhatsApp Voice Note, Sociolinguistic Online
Learning
The COVID-19 outbreak made teaching and learning activity turned into
online learning with the help of digital applications. One of the digital applications
that is often used is WhatsApp with one of its features, namely voice notes to deliver
learning materials. The use of the WhatsApp feature in Sociolinguistic online
learning delivered in dominant English by lecturers made the 6th semester students
of TBI IAIN Madura academic year 2021/2022 become passive students, students
only respond to greetings, but do not actively build discussion in online learning.
Based on this, there are three problems that become the main study in this
research, namely the first is what difficulties do the sixth semester students of TBI
in IAIN Madura academic year 2021/2022 experience in comprehending the
material of Sociolinguistic online learning from WhatsApp voice note, the second
is what factors cause the sixth semester students of TBI in IAIN Madura academic
year 2021/2022 to experience difficulties in comprehending the material of
Sociolinguistic online learning from WhatsApp voice note, the third is how do the
sixth semester students of TBI in IAIN Madura academic year 2021/2022 overcome
the difficulties in comprehending the material of Sociolinguistic online learning
from WhatsApp voice note.
This research is a qualitative research and the kind of research is descriptive
research. The data of this research collected from observation, interview, and
documentation. The interviewee are the sixth semester students of TBI IAIN
Madura academic year 2022/2023 from TBI A, B, and C classes. The validity of
the data in this study was checked through triangulation.
The results of this study indicate that : First, the difficulties experienced by
sixth semester students of TBI in IAIN Madura academic year 2021/2022 in
comprehending the material of Sociolinguistic online learning from WhatsApp
voice note are accent, unknown vocabulary, listening length and speed, difficulty
in getting a good internet signal, and newly known material. Second, the factors
cause the difficulties are from characteristics of the message, characteristics of the
listener, and characteristics of the environment. Third, the students overcome the
difficulties by doing activities like playing and re-listening the voice note, looking
for additional explanations from the internet, forcing themself to continue learning,
increasing vocabulary mastery, and reading the explanation contained in the PPT.
It deals with the metacognitive strategy.
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