Teaching English by using E-learning during COVID-19 Pandemic Time

Abstract

COVID-19 a public health crisis of worldwide importance was announced by the World Health Organization (WHO) in January 2020 as a new corona virus disease outbreak and was reported as a pandemic in March 2020. Mr. Joko Widodo, the President of Republic of Indonesia, has instructed all Indonesian citizens to practice social and physical distance. To reduce the spread of COVID-19, the Indonesian government implemented certain preventive measures. Mr. Nadiem Anwar Makarim, Indonesia’s Minister of Education and Culture, has instructed all students, including University students to study from home. A descriptive qualitative research was used to conduct this study. The study’s findings show that in the event in the event of a pandemic, the E-learning system is the only possible teaching learning approach. Teachers and students simply connected to the internet from their homes and were connected to an approved E-learning program by the institutions or lecturers.  However, there were undeniable challenges in implementing E-learning, such as a lack of internet access or WIFI, learners getting unmotivated and insufficient levels of student engagement. Affective domains appeared to be minimized in E-learning systems due to a lack of actual social and psychological interactions between teacher and students. The interactive teacher-student discussion is not as productive as it would be in a conventional teaching.