First International Conference on Humanities, Education, Language and Culture, ICHELAC 2021, 30-31 August 2021, Flores, Indonesia

Research Article

Psychological Impact of Online Learning to EFL Students Under COVID-19 Pandemic

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.30-7-2021.2313633,
        author={Yosefina Helenora Jem and Fransiskus Jemadi and Yustus Sentus Halum},
        title={Psychological Impact of Online Learning to EFL Students Under COVID-19 Pandemic},
        proceedings={First International Conference on Humanities, Education, Language and Culture, ICHELAC 2021, 30-31 August 2021, Flores, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICHELAC},
        year={2021},
        month={11},
        keywords={anxiety online learning efl students covid-19 pandemic},
        doi={10.4108/eai.30-7-2021.2313633}
    }
    
  • Yosefina Helenora Jem
    Fransiskus Jemadi
    Yustus Sentus Halum
    Year: 2021
    Psychological Impact of Online Learning to EFL Students Under COVID-19 Pandemic
    ICHELAC
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.30-7-2021.2313633
Yosefina Helenora Jem1,*, Fransiskus Jemadi1, Yustus Sentus Halum1
  • 1: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Santu Paulus Ruteng
*Contact email: jemyosefina@gmail.com

Abstract

This writing is intended to investigate the impact of online learning under COVID-19 pandemic to EFL students’ psychology. It specially concerns on EFL students’ level of anxiety in online learning during this pandemic. A survey had been conducted to assess one hundred EFL students’ level of anxiety by using Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, which consists of twenty items as the questionnaire. Each item of the collected questionnaire respond was calculated to find the frequency and mean. After having the mean of each item, the researchers find the mean of all items to determine students’ level of anxiety by using likert scale. The result indicates that, students’ level of anxiety is low (2,065). Regarding to the result, it can be concluded that having EFL online class under COVID-19 pandemic does not afford negative impact on students’ psychology.