STUDENTS DIFFICULTIES IN DESIGNING DIGITAL MEDIA ON CALL CLASS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH AT UIN SUNAN AMPEL SURABAYA

Using various digital media is always challenging. Teacher and students should be able to use media through different technologies so that the students will not be bored when receiving the material. doing the processes here are termed as Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), there are many problem in this process many students lack of computer knowledge. Besides, most of teachers to be, do not have enough time to prepare material using computers. many variant in digital media students able to choose the appropriate media for teaching sometimes have difficult to understand the explanation, Students often forget in memorizing information or they fail to apply it, when it is really needed, To much group assignment than individual assignment.it will be a serious problem. Therefore, difficulties in designing digital media become the topic of this study which has purpose: 1)What the students difficulties in designing the digital media on CALL class for teaching English. break down become two major that are a) What the students Factor that resulting student’s difficulties in designing digital media on CALL for teaching English and b) How the students deal with the difficulties in designing digital media on CALL class for teaching English. By using qualitative approach as the research design, the subjects were selected from the student in eight semesters who taken CALL class and the lecturer who handled CALL class. the research was started through the application of questioner and interview regarding their perception toward the questionnaire. The result of this study showed that there are two factor caused in students difficulties there were internal and external factor. Then, the students feel difficult in designing digital media when the students make digital media that appropriate with students need, input the content, Tools as media in learning process and less knowledge to operate. Therefore, the students way to face difficulties in designing digital media are; collaborating with others, communicating with the teacher, searching another point of view, after that Looking for another tool and the last practicing the digital media. Recommendations for future research have also been discussed.