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Teachers’ Problems and Solutions in Teaching English through Online Learning

This study aims to describe the problems that English teachers faced in online teaching and learning activities during Covid-19 pandemic and how they solved those problems. The respondents of this study were two English teachers, an IT staff, and twenty five students of State Senior High School 3 of Banyuasin III, South Sumatra, Indonesia. This study was conducted with qualitative descriptive method with guided interview and close-ended questionnaire as the techniques of collecting data. The findings of this study were problems that English teachers faced in online teaching dealt with lack of facilities and difficulties in delivering online lesson.In addition to those problems, the teachers also solved problems such as stress and loneliness that some students felt in conducting online learning activity. Teachers’ solutions to these problems were to allow students with lack of facilities problem to go to the school with health protocols that they must obey. As for difficulties in delivering online lesson, the teachers tried to create interesting learning media and they also provided group discussion for students.