Perceptions of Indonesian Teachers and Students on the Use of Quipper School as an Online Platform for Extended EFL Learning

Abstract

In Indonesia, the globalization era has directed the policy makers to establish English as a compulsory subject in the secondary school curriculum. However, the major issue in pursuing the goal of the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) has been the imbalance between the amount of teaching materials and the time to teach the materials. The availability of the Internet has provided a concept that learning is not just a one-time event to be conducted at schools, but learning is also a continuous process that can be conducted beyond the school time. One of the learning platforms in the Internet is Quipper School, and this platform has been used by EFL teachers in Indonesia. This article reports the result of research on the EFL teachers’ perceptions on the teaching of EFL and the reasons for using Quipper School as a platform for the students’ EFL learning. Three EFL teachers teaching in senior high school level and six students who have used the platform with the three teachers were involved in this research. The results of the study show that the Indonesian EFL teachers used the platform not only for coping with the limited time available for EFL teaching, but also due to the significant value of the platform to support the students’ EFL learning.