Education in the last two years has undergone very rapid changes due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Online learning is the only option for education to take place. This requires students and teachers to utilize information technology in language learning. The investigation was carried out to find out the extent of student persistence in carrying out language learning at the Raja Ali Haji Maritime University during the Covid-19 pandemic. Investigation through a survey of 103 FKIP students. Collecting data using a questionnaire with a Likert Scale. Furthermore, the data were analyzed by structural equation modeling. The results exhibited that (1) Students' IT mastery affects lecturers' teaching methods;(2) Students' IT mastery has no effect on student persistence, (3) Facilities do not affect lecturer's teaching methods, (4) Facilities do not affect student persistence, (5) Media/application variations affect lecturer's teaching methods, (6) Variations media/applications have no effect on student persistence, (7) lecturer's teaching methods have no effect on student persistence.

Persistence, students, online language learning