Investigating EFL Students' Perceptions of Kahoot! Application Used for English Learning in Keluarga Widuri Vocational High School Jakarta

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SHALMA MAFIRA ZARKASIH. NIM: 1601055032. Investigating EFL Students' Perceptions of Kahoot! Application Used for English Learning in Keluarga Widuri Vocational High School Jakarta. A skripsi; Jakarta: The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA, 2020.

In this study, the writer investigates the EFL students’ perceptions of Kahoot! application in Keluarga Widuri Vocational High School Jakarta. In this research, the writer also tries to answer the main question What are EFL students of Keluarga Widuri Vocational High School Jakarta perceptions towards the Kahoot! application used for their English learning? To be able to answer the question, the quantitative survey method was used by involving 73 students as the respondents using Google form questionnaire. After that, the data were calculated and analyzed by using IBM SPSS 23 to find the mean and the percentage. The result of the questionnaire showed that the students enjoyed learning via Kahoot! application, they clearly stated that Kahoot! brought fun and positive ambience to the students in the classroom.The purpose of the research is to get the empirical data of whether or not there is relationship between anxiety and the ability to speak English of the first semester students of the English department of FKIP UHAMKA Jakarta in the 2018/2019 academic year. The research was started in September and finished in November 2019. The sample of the research was Survival Listening Speaking class and the participants consisted of 30 students. The method was quantitative data by using questionnaire to obtain the data of the anxiety and doing a monolog in a video for measuring the speaking skill. The finding of the research showed that the calculation of correlation analysis by Pearson Product Moment was r observe (ro) is 0,4792 and r table (rt) is 0.349 in the level significance P = 0.05 with n = 30. It means that ro is higher than rt (0.47 > 0.349). Therefore, Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. In brief, there was a relationship between students’ anxiety and theirspeaking skill of the secondsemester students of the English department of FKIP UHAMKA Jakarta.