Students' Perception about the Comprehensibility of the Online English Learning Teaching Materials Over the Crisis of Covid -19 at SMAN 19 Makassar = Students' Perception about the Comprehensibility of the Online English Learning Teaching Materials Over the Crisis of Covid -19 at SMAN 19 Makassar

ABSTRACT
IRFIANI BAKRI. High School Students’ Perception about the Comprehensibility of the English Teaching Material Provided Online Over the Crisis of Covid-19 (Supervised by Abidin Pammu and Nasmilah).

the present study aimed to understand the comprehensibility of teaching material has attracted the attention of teaching practitioners notably as it is related to the merging pandemic covid-19 and also was to elucidate the perception of students regarding the comprehensibility of English teaching material during emerging Covid-19. Another purpose is to generate alternative solution to instructional strategy in how to overcome the problems of comprehensibility during the situation.

In collecting data regarding the perception, close and open-ended questionnaires were distributed to the selected samples representing Secondary High School of SMAN 19 Makassar by using google form format. Sufficient time allocation was prepared to allow the samples to provide reliable and valid responses. Then, comprehensibility scale that has been developed by Rubio (2015) was utilized to measure the student’s perception on each of the given topic of online. The scaled data were then analyzed using SPSS EBM V 26 to obtain the mean score of students’ perception of comprehensibility.

The results demonstrated that the perceptions of comprehensibility was (Sig 2-Tailed <0.05). The value confirmed that the Cronbach's Alpha for 16 questionnaire items were> 0.60. This finding confirms that the overall items in this table were reliable implying that the level of material comprehensibility was moderate that can be interpreted as less productive. The finding generates pedagogical implication that require teachers during pandemic Covid-19 to constantly aware of provision of other alternative method for teaching as a substitute materials during the pandemic.

Key words: Perceptions; comprehensibility; emerging; Covid-19>