Last modified: 2021-09-17
Abstract
Face-to-face classroom teaching, due to the pandemic that hit the world, has largely shifted to online classroom teaching. Therefore, teachers should find and implement attention-grabbing strategies to attract students’ interest in learning. By utilizing technology, EFL listening teachers look for the affluent way to teach. This study is carried out to identify how listening teachers develop their competences in integrating technology and how they used technology tools provided during their remote teachings. Survey method was employed in this research. Questionnaires in the form of Google form were distributed to and completed online by the participants. The result shows that all listening teachers developed their competences through technology-focused teacher professional development (TPD) during their remote teaching. Half of the respondents practiced the internal TPD provided by their institution, the other used free and paid online workshop or webinar. Mostly, teachers deliver their listening class with the combination of synchronous and asynchronous teaching with teaching platform video conference (Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams), messenger (WhatsApp, Telegram), and virtual class/LMS (Moodle, Google Classroom, Edmodo). In developing online listening lesson, fifty percent of them adapted from face to face teaching, thirty percent of them adjusts the lesson similar to face to face teaching, and twenty percent creates new lesson in accordance with new situation. The Students activities in online teaching are not different from their activities in face to face classroom teaching such as individual learning (record the video of themselves talking about the assigned topic), in pairs (discuss the assigned topic), and group works (discuss the assigned topic with groups). In conclusion, teachers become accustomed to the situation through developing their own competences in using technology and are able to get used to the technology of teaching and apply them to their teaching listening during remote teaching.
Affiliation: Universitas Jambi, Jambi
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