VIRTUAL CLASSROOM USED BY THE LECTURER IN TEACHING SPEAKING AT ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF KALIMANTAN MAB BANJARMASIN

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Speaking is described as the interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing, receiving and processing information. It is an important part of everyday interaction and most often the first impression of a person is based on his/her ability to speak fluently and comprehensively. Teaching becomes very hard professions in the world, especially teaching English in speaking skill. As teachers, have good sense in teaching and understand how to use technology in teaching will make themselves easier to help the indirect learning process through virtual. One of the technology can be used by the teacher as media to online learning process is virtual classroom. The subject of this research was the English teacher and the students at the fifth semester of English Education at Islamic University of Kalimantan MAB Banjarmasin. Here, using qualitative research design. Then to collect the data the researcher used interview guide. In analyzing the data the researcher applied steps of data analysis suggested by Sugiyono, at all. There are data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification. The result of analysis shows that the implementation of virtual classroom the teacher consider that media is an alternative that is easily to support the distance learning process through online or virtual. But in other cases in teaching speaking, the teacher cannot observe how the development of students' speaking skills directly because the learning process is carried out virtually.