ENGLISH TEACHER’S CONCEPTION OF WRITING SKILLS VIA ONLINE LEARNING DURING THE COVID-19 PERIOD
Keywords:
writing skills, English teachers’ conception, online teaching, professional developmentAbstract
Writing is an essential skill in language learning and is the focus of instruction in language classrooms. The sudden move to teach online would provoke a change in teachers’ perception about teaching language skills. The study aims at exploring English teachers’ conception about teaching writing skills online during the COVID-19pandemic and explain the relationship between teachers’ conceptions of online teaching and their strategies to teach writing skills. This research is a qualitative phenomenological study. The research is qualitative because a qualitative design provides grounds for the researcher to explore the contextual information collected of the participants’ understanding of the phenomena. Themes arise from thematic analysis found that ESL teachers’ conceptions about teaching English online and challenges encountred in using technology in online teaching. Overall, the teachers reported that online teaching has considerably impacted their teaching instruction and role in class as well as their professional development as teachers.
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