THE USE OF LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (MOODLE) FOR TEACHING STUDENTS'ENGLISH GRAMMAR

This research reports the application of Learning Management System (Moodle) for teaching students’ English Grammar at short period of time around June to July 2020 in one private university at Jakarta due to the Coronavirus pandemic outburst arisen in Indonesia. We all know that the pandemic of covid-19 has forced students to learn from home in which the application of Learning Management System (LMS) such as Moodle becomes very popular and optimal. Thus, this research is concentrated to check whether or not the LMS Moodle positively provide better English learning situation (specifically grammar) for students. To cover the answer, this research was applied quantitative method with simply pre-experiment design which involved 1 experiment class who studied General English. The class consisted of 32 students, and the instruments were Pre and Post Test of Grammar Tenses. The treatment was given for 6 meeting. The result showed that the t-test were 1.70 for t-table while t-observed was 7.20. Since to > tt (7.20 >1.70), it can be concluded that the use of Learning Management System (Moodle) was truly effective to be utilized for teaching students’ English grammar