The Implementation of Online Teaching during Pandemic and Its Problems in EFL Classrooms

Due to the Pandemic situation, online teaching is recommended by the Indonesian government. However, the implementation of online teaching may still become a dilemma for English teachers since each school has different facilities, students’ and teachers’ competence, and schools' different conditions. This paper presents the findings of a study of the implementation of online teaching English that focus on the teaching and learning process: pre-teaching, whilst teaching and post-teaching activity and its problem in one of the senior high schools in Padang. Descriptive qualitative is used in this research. The data is collected through the recording of classroom observation of English teachers in the EFL classroom and the Stimulated Recall Interview (SRI) with the respective teachers. The Stimulated Recall Interview was done to find out teachers' problems in online teaching. The participants are five English teachers in SMAN 16 Padang. The result was not all English teachers did all the activities in each stage suggested. In preteaching activity, the teachers take attendance, greet and give motivation to the students. Then, they jump to give the assessment to the students and ask them to submit it. Some of the activities in whilst and post-teaching activity were mot done by the teachers. These were because they have the problem in pre-teaching activity: the preparation, choosing, and using the appropriate platform and strategy based on learning objective. Thus, the effect of these situations was that the online teaching of English became not effective.