Exploring Senior High School English Teachers’ Strategies To Deal With the Challenges of Teaching English In the Online Setting: A Case Study

Abstract

The pandemic of Covid-19 has affected the education system, particularly in Indonesia. All teaching and learning activities should be set in an online learning environment. This situation requires the teachers to change their strategy in the learning and teaching process. This study aims to find out the challenges and also the strategy to deal with the challenges of teaching English in an online setting. The study applied a case study research design using a documentary video and semi-structured interview. The study showed that the teachers faced some challenges in online classes such as difficulty in monitoring the students, the lack of students’ motivation, the student’s network instability, lack of students’ activity, etc. The result of the study also indicates that the teachers applied the strategies in online setting classes such as combining synchronous and synchronous, playing a song, using other learning applications, giving an additional score, etc.