Students’ Perception of Speaking Practice in Online Classroom Activities

Perception is individual’s feeling and thinking about something that ever done. Students should have their own perception about speaking activity that their interest with. This research is aimed to find out the students’ perception of speaking practice in online classroom activities and to find out students’ obstacles during speaking at State Islamic Senior High School 01 INHIL. This research used quantitative research. Descriptive quantitative method used in this research. This research was held on January-March 2022 at Islamic Senior High School 01 INHIL. The populations were 50 students at eleventh grade students in XI IPA, XI IPS, and XI MAK. Thus, questionnaire and interview were used to gather the data. The findings show the students gave negative perception about their speaking practice in online classroom at the last semester. Besides, most of the students claimed their obstacles during speaking were anxiety, shyness, self-confidence, do not know how to pronounced and difficulties in grammar.