A STUDY OF ONLINE LEARNING USED BY HIGH FLYERS STUDENTS AT EF ENGLISH FIRST MALANG

Teaching English for Young Learners is not easy. The teacher needs creative and fun media to make the students easy and interested in learning English. There are many kinds of media can be used to make English learning process become easy and interesting. The use of internet as teaching media can be considered as a new phenomena in this globalization era. Dealing with those phenomena, the writer wants to know the kind of online learning used by High Flyers students of EF English First Malang and their responses toward online learning they did. The design used in this study was descriptive qualitative research design because it was designed to obtain information concerning the current status of phenomena and directed toward determining the nature of a situation as it exists at the time of the study. Meanwhile, the instruments used were questionnaire, observation, and document analyses to gather the data on subjectÂ’s opinion, beliefs, and feeling in the situation. The finding showed that the online learning used by High Flyers students of EF English First Malang was a face-to-face language learning with additional online material. It needs the students for coming to the class then the materials were delivered online. The teacher also used the module in teaching learning process. The online media they used was Practice and Play that was such kind of game covering with common expression, grammar, vocabulary, and listening. Based on the finding also, the students had positive responses toward the online media used in learning English. It was known from questionnaire given to the students that 177 (76, 62%) students showed positive responses and 54 (23, 38%) students showed negative responses. the students had fun and interest in playing the games in Practice and Play until the last level. The students were also able to answer the questions delivered online by playing the games easily. They were always interested in playing the games until the next level