Teachers and Students’ Perceptions toward Online English Teaching and Learning during a Covid-19 Pandemic at Senior High School in Torgamba, Labuhanbatu Selatan, Sumatera Utara

This research was aim to analyze how teachers and students’ perceptions toward online English teaching and learning in the Covid-19 Pandemic at the Senior high school in Torgamba. In this research, the researcher used an online questionnaire that consisted of 15 statements for teachers and 27 for students. The participants were 8 English teachers and 140 ninth-grade students at SMAN 1 and SMAN 2 Torgamba. This study applied a descriptive quantitative design. The finding from the data analysis was most teachers gave a positive perception of online English teaching and learning with a mean score of 2.57. The process of learning English was easier with online during this pandemic but still, the teachers prefer conventional teaching in the future. Then, most students also gave a positive perception toward the online English teaching and learning with a mean score was 2.54. The process of learning English was easier and could foster students’ independent learning attitudes but still, the students also found some problems in implementing this learning.