An Analysis of Students’ Perception towards Platforms used in Online English Learning at Ninth Grade of Junior High Schools Tarakan
The purpose of this study is to determine students' perceptions of the platform used during online English learning in 9th grade at Tarakan Junior High School. This study uses a quantitative descriptive method and grade 9 of SMP 1, SMP 9, SMP 10, and SMP 12 students as a population with a total of 911 students. The number of samples in this study was 270 students who were calculated using the isaac and michael formulas, so as many as 67-68 students were taken from each school and used purposive sampling. Data collection in this study is a questionnaire distributed to the sample in the form of a questionnaire that aims to represent students' answers. The analytical technique used is descriptive quantitative. The results of this study indicate that the Zoom application gets the highest score in the medium category, which is 109 students or can be said to be neutral. For the Google Meet platform, there are 138 students in the medium category or it can be said to get a neutral perception, while Google Classroom gets a positive perception with a high category of 110 students. Based on these results, it can be concluded that Google Classroom gets a positive perception from students.