USING ONLINE APPLICATIONS IN ENGLISH ONLINE LEARNING PROCESS: A CASE STUDY AT THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF IAIN KERINCI ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021

Online learning is used as the main alternative for the learning process during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Online learning allows students to carry out learning using various online applications as learning media such as WhatApp Group, Edmodo, Google Classroom, Zoom and Google Meet. The aims of this research was to know what applications are used by the lecturers at the English Department of IAIN Kerinci in online learning process, advantages anddisadvantages of using online applications in online learning process, and how the lecturers and students overcome the perceived disadvantages of using online applications in online learning process. Researcher used descriptive qualitative as research design. The informants of this research were 10 lecturers and 25 students of English Department of IAIN Kerinci. The data were collected by using interviews and documentations and were analyzed by using thematic analysis. The results showed that the applications used in online learning process by the lecturers and students are WhatApp Group, Edmodo, Google Classroom, Zoom and Google Meet. Among the advantages of using online pplications in online learning stated by the lecturers are ease in distribution of learning material and easy to deliver material. Meawhile, for the students, the advantages are ease in access to learning materials and ease in efficiency in learning access. The disadvantages felt by the lecturers were disruptions of access to online facilities and difficulties in managing online learning classes. The disadvantages felt by the students were insufficient support for learning facilities and low learning motivation. The lecturers and students overcome the perceived disadvantagesbased on the group of the disadvantages.