Teaching Writing Online Strategies During Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The objective of this research were to find out the teaching writing online strategies during Covid-19 pandemic and the students` response of teaching writing online strategies during Covid-19 pandemic at the ten grade of SMK Gusdur Gununganyar, Soko, Tuban. The method of this research was descriptive qualitative research. The subjects of this research were the English teachers who taught in X-IPA and X-IPS in SMK Gusdur during Covid-19. The instruments of this research were observation and interview. The result of this research found that there are some strategies used by teachers in teaching writing online strategies during Covid-19 pandemic era. The first teacher used video as learning strategy and small group discuss strategy and from the second teacher used pictures as learning strategy and imaginary strategy to teach writing through online learning class. From those strategies, the researcher found that the strategies helped the teachers to teach writing easier even through online learning class. The teachers are able to know how far the students understand the material that the teacher has given to the students and the students are able to do the task after the material has been given. The students also gave good response to the teaching writing online strategies during Covid-19 pandemic.