The Use of Whatsapp Group Discussion To Improve Grammar Competence in MAN 1 Banyumas

Since the pandemic disease of coronavirus or colloquially known as COVID-19 in 2020 most of educational activities are constrained. This leads to the problem in the learning process at schools. Due to the event, schools are temporarily could not implemented face-to-face learning, yet the education process must go on, however. Thus, the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia recommend a series of distance learning in this situation. WhatsApp is used as the distance learning media to teach English in MAN 1 Banyumas. WhatsApp is an application provided by now well-known company Facebook. WhatsApp was intended on conducting people in easier and convenient instant messaging which uses end to end encryption and requires internet data network to operate it. The English teacher in MAN 1 Banyumas uses WhatsApp as the media. Thus, it become phenomenon following the situation which was able to lead the curiosity of the researchers to conduct the study based on what is occurring in the current time. The study uses a qualitative method to find out the effectiveness of WhatsApp media group discussion to improve grammar competence in MAN 1 Banyumas, to discover the grammar competence of the students, and the advantage of WhatsApp group discussion to improve grammar competence according to the teacher. Otherwise, the teacher also stated that online learning through WhatsApp group discussion is easier to be done even though there are issues in the internet signal and data plan.