STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ABOUT BLENDED LEARNING MODEL IN NEW NORMAL ERA: A CASE STUDY AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF HASANUDDIN UNIVERSITY

Desriyanti Anwar. Students’ Perception of The Blended Learning Model in The New Normal Era: A Case Study at English Department Hasanuddin University (Supervised by Nasmilah and Hidayatullah Yunus). This research aims to know how blended learning is implemented in the new normal era and how do students' perceive about the learning method that are divided into 3 categories, namely: 1) students' perceptions of changes in the learning environment, 2) students' perceptions in learning contribution, and 3) students' perceptions of assignments. The research was conducted at Hasanuddin University Makassar. The participants of this study are the student from batch 2021 of English Department. In this research, the researcher applied mixed methods of qualitative and quantitative. The data were collected using questionnaires and interviews. The subjects were selected using convenience sampling, a non-probability sampling technique, which in this case are students who are willing to voluntarily participate in filling out the questionnaire distributed by the researcher. The findings of this research showed that the implementation of blended learning in the new normal era is not that effective because students have to make adjustments where initially learning was done fully offline, and suddenly switched to blended method. Furthermore, the students' perceptions of blended learning in the new normal era show that they have a more positive perception about the online assignments than learning contribution and learning environment.