A NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEACHER’S EXPERIENCES IN TEACHING PUBLIC SPEAKING THROUGH ONLINE LEARNING-BASED EMERGENCY REMOTE TEACHING

Abstract

This paper is focuses on investigating teacher‟s experiences in teaching public speaking through online learning based-emergency remote teaching. This study aimed to know the teachers‟ experiences, the problems and its solutions in the implementation of teaching public speaking through online learning basedemergency remote teaching in the Covid-19 pandemic situation. The study employed a narrative analysis method in the process for data taken from interviews and document analysis. The participant of this study was chosen purposively and it is an English teacher who taught public speaking in Class 2B English Education Program through online learning-based emergency remote teaching at Universitas Galuh. The result of this study reveals that (1) There are several things that must be considered to carry out learning activities, namely the preparation stage, the implementation stage and the stage for evaluating student learning outcomes; (2) Several problems emerged on its implementation, namely poor internet connections, the lack of student internet quotas, and the problem of direct interaction between teacher and students during virtual meetings; (3) The solutions were found to overcome network problems and internet quotas is to make learning video recordings posted on Google Classroom or Telegram so students can watch them at a later time after having a good internet connection and sufficient quota, and the provision of Telegram as a forum for indirect interaction between teachers and students outside of direct interaction in virtual meetings.