This study was a case study of qualitative research design to know the impact of distance learning through zoom application and WhatsApp group on students’ attitude and English aptitude: A Case Study on Students of ICT due Covid-19 Outbreak. The result of the study showed that most of the students’ attitude or response to the online learning using zoom application are less interesting, interactive, effective, efficient and energetic. It was also found that many troubles with their signal, and they often got limited internet package. Zoom meeting needed much internet package to connect between lecturer and learners in one meeting. In this case, the trouble networks and limited internet also often gave impact on students’ learning process, style, and strategy to enhance their English aptitude; listening and speaking competency. Meanwhile, the lecturer took the usage of WhatsApp group by sending voice notes and materials about reading and writing. No troubled networks to download and upload the reading and writing tasks during distance teaching and learning class. It needed a little internet to get the online materials. Based on the situation, almost all participants felt interesting to join reading and writing online class. Aside from that, they could enhance their own English aptitude; reading and writing proficiency. To against the highly infectious covid-19 pandemic, the distance learning has created their physic and mental health from fear, anxiety, panic, and the outbreaks of influenza. Learning from home is one of the solution to reduce the physical contact to large number of people. Distance learning has been referred to save educational young generation from the pandemic of covid-19 outbreak.

Reading literacy and cognitive process are two essentials elements for ASD students to promote their reading skills because both of them can support learners' cognitive development, English skills, fluency, vocabulary, and grammar (Bruner, 1985;Dynia et al., 2014;Lanter et al., 2012). They are also considered as an indication of learners' PISA levels (PISA / OECD, 2015) when it is connected to the PISA reading test. Studies ASD's cognition process have been widely conducted in many different areas such as Mathematics, L2 and psychology (Keat & Khaidzir, 2011;Randi et al., 2010;Woolley, 2016). First, Chiang & Lin (2007a), for example, conducted article reviews in the field of reading comprehension for ASD learners. Their study focused on academic reading and word understanding from various articles published in Scopus indexed journals. The review results revealed that peer tutoring seemed to be an effective strategy in teaching reading comprehension for students with autism in general education settings but they neglected the vital roles of the comprehension process.Similarly, Randi et al., ( 2010) investigated ASD student's cognitive skills using academic reading texts. The texts focused on gaining meaning, reading, and decoding skills. The result showed ASD student's cognitive processes was not optimally elaborated on since the focus of the study relied on the decoding aspect. Third, in the field of Mathematics, Fauziyah et al. ( 2019) scrutinized ASD learners' cognitive process of Mathematical thinking. From the study, they found that ASD learners' cognitive process involved five linear stages, namely sentence interpretation, message recall, conceptual knowledge, plan design, and implementation. (Anderson, 2005;Frankel et al., 2016). However, the literature has been relatively sparse regarding ASD cognitive processes under the L2 domain since Mathematics, and L2 domains need different cognition processes and skills. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating ASD learners' cognition process in L2 reading activities using PISA reading literacy. Methods DesignThe study was case study research with two ASD students as participants. This case study research allows for an in-depth analysis of participants in naturalistic settings with detailed reflection of phenomena that occur. Naturalistic observations, interviews, and artefacts were examined to draw the participant's cognition process during the research process (Disney & Geng, 2017). In this study, two ASD students' cognitive processes were carefully observed while comprehending a reading literacy test. The cognitive processes were analyzed to construct theories during the interaction with a PISA reading comprehension test.

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In the teaching and learning process, the roles of teachers and students will be balanced if there is good communication between them. However, learning methods from face-to-face to e-learning suddenly prompt the teachers to look for various alternatives to convey the material due to COVID-19 pandemic. The research analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the learning process, especially Mandarin, in an elementary school. The research uses a descriptive-analytical method with questionnaires. The questionnaires are filled out by 34 students from the fifth grade in Bina Kusuma Elementary School, Jakarta. The research finds the positive impacts of elearning in the school regarding Mandarin learning. First, the subject is more interesting and easier to understand. Second, students can learn the right notes and pronunciation independently. Third, using WhatsApp and Zoom can help students recall previously learned vocabulary. Fourth, students can learn new vocabulary independently. Fifth, e-learning can motivate students to learn and gain experience from new learning methods. Sixth, students can manage their time in learning, so they become more independent. Last, students can study anywhere and anytime without time and space limits. However, the weakness of e-learning is the speed of the internet. It affects the students in obtaining the provided subject by the teachers.

Abstract This study intends to find out the problems or barriers faced by Indonesian students in studying for an English proficiency test (EPT), especially in Listening section. EPT becomes a standard English test and a compulsory test for students since it is used as one of the requirements for their graduation at the degree level, and also for a job application. Those requirements increase the demand of the test. However, the fact shows that the test takers of the EPT took the test for times since they cannot pass the targetted score. This fact led this study to investigate further about the barriers they face in EPT. The study also describes kinds of English Proficiency Test and the kind used in University of Muhammadiyah Gresik. The design of the study is descriptive qualitative with 40 students as the subject. The data will be collected from questionnaire and follow-up interview to answer the question and reveal the barriers they face during the test.