Indonesian Students’ Attitudes on Microsoft PowerPoint Usage in English Classroom

Nowadays, PowerPoint is becoming more common to be used in education throughout the world, including in an English classroom in Indonesia. One thing that must be considered before implementation of PowerPoint in English classroom in Indonesia is the students' attitudes towards PowerPoint, since it may influence their learning. This research attempted to investigate Indonesian students' attitudes towards the PowerPoint's influence on their learning and their instructors' performance in an English classroom in Indonesia. Also, the difference between male and female students in terms of their attitudes towards PowerPoint on those aspects was also investigated. The literature review of this research focused on attitudes and its influence of students' learning and students' attitudes towards PowerPoint usage in education. This research used the quantitative approach and utilized questionnaire to gather the data. The participants of this study were the students of Universitas Satya Negara Indonesia (USNI), a private university in Jakarta, Indonesia. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the Mann-Whitney U test. The results of this research indicated that in general, participants showed positive attitudes towards PowerPoint's influence on their learning and their instructors' performance in an English classroom. Also, no significant difference between male and female students in terms of their attitudes towards PowerPoint's influence on those aspects. Those results may encourage English teachers and lecturers in Indonesia to utilize PowerPoint in their classroom due to the positive attitudes of the students towards it.