Exploring Secondary School EFL Teachers’ Barriers to E-Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interview Study

Abstract

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has become global health issue and successfully presented damage to several activities, including educational activities. Consequently, the teacher should face the challenges in which instruction is delivered virtually through digital to student interaction and fostering their growth as learners. This study applied an interview study (Kvale, 1996). This study focuses on secondary school teacher barriers on teaching learning that operates e-learning during COVID 19 pandemic. Semi-structured interviews are employed to obtain the description of the barriers. To transform the question, these interviews use mobile phone to deliver questionnaire in order to keep social distancing between each participant. Thematic analyses data (Widodo, 2014) are adopted in this study that is shown descriptively. The finding of this study showed that teaching the student in online learning while COVID-19 outbreak potentially giving challenge or barriers to the teacher. The bad signal inhibits both teacher and students to share the material. Teacher ability, parents support, device support and the student’s ability are the others barriers that minimally occurred to the teaching learning process.