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An Analysis of Students’ Speaking Ability in Class Presentation during Covid-19 Pandemic at IAIN Padangsidimpuan

The Covid-19 pandemic has great challenges in people’s life, including education. Physical distancing requires lecturers or teachers to do teaching and learning process through internet as the media. The use of e-learning is very important to support learning system by applying several platforms, such as YouTube, Zoom Meeting, Google Meet and others. This study aims to analyse students’ speaking ability at the third year students of IAIN Padangsidimpuan on class presentation. This research is used the descriptive design. Students’ class presentations by Zoom Meeting were recorded as data collection instrument. The subjects of the study were the third year students of IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The result of this study is the categories of the students’ speaking ability in every aspects of speaking. To categorize the students speaking ability, the researcher adapted the rubric from Brown (2004) which categorizes students speaking on class presentation into pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, fluency, and comprehension. Then, the students’ average score is calculated and classified.