The Effect of E-learning on Students’ Speaking Skills Achievement during Covid-19

Speaking is one of the important skills in English which requires direct physical attention in developing students' language skills. However, since Covid-19 attacked elements of education in Indonesia, the government has decided to change the learning system from face-to-face to online learning. This study aimed to find out the effect of E-learning on students' speaking skill achievement during Covid-19 and students' responses to E-learning in learning speaking skills. This study used a quantitative method with a pre-experimental design. The population of this research is the English Department student's in the UIN Ar-Raniry batch 2019 with 25 students as a sample who were chosen by criteria. Data were collected using test methods (pretest and posttest) and questionnaires which were analyzed using paired sample T-test and SPSS 24th version. The results of the data analysis descriptively showed that the students' posttest scores were higher than the pretest scores (65.28 > 49.76). Meanwhile, the results of the paired sample T-test showed that the significance value is lower than 0.05 (0.000 < 0.05) which means E-learning can affect students' achievement in speaking skills. In addition, students not only gave positive responses to learning speaking skills but also felt many benefits in using E-learning. Although E-learning has drawbacks, the results of the questionnaire proved that more than half of the total students prefer to learn speaking skills using E-learning and agree that their skills are better than before.