Teaching Writing for Non-Alphabetic Foreign Language during Covid-19: Lecturers’ Point of View

Abstract

. The Covid-19 pandemic has led to the implementation of online learning. Online learning, which is currently being implemented, certainly cannot cover all the aspects needed, especially the lack of interaction and demonstrations. This causes lecturers to find difficulties in teaching writing classes, especially writing in non-alphabetic foreign languages for beginners. By using qualitative methods, this study describes the difficulties experienced by lecturers in teaching writing orthographic characters in the Covid-19 pandemic conditions. The participants involved were 24 lecturers from Chinese literature and Japanese literature from some universities in Indonesia, in which both languages have Hanzi and Kanji characters, respectively. The findings of this study are, the lecturers find it difficult to demonstrate online how to write characters that are in accordance with the strokes and stroke order, besides, lecturers also have difficulty finding applications or software that can be used for teaching writing orthographic characters. The lack of interaction on the video conference platform was also recognized by the lecturers as an obstacle because they could not check students’ work in real time at the same time. The results of this study will be used to provide input to institutional management in order to create strategies and possible solutions that can help to overcome these problems.