TEACHER'S PERCEPTION OF ONLINE TEACHING

ABSTRACT

This study explores teachers’ perceptions of online teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic. The main objective of this study is to understand teachers’ perceptions towards the online teaching process, an online survey questionnaire of 42 English teachers and semi-structured interviews with 5 English language teachers from primary levels was conducted. Teachers were approached to complete 15 close-ended survey questions. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were approached in this study. The survey and interviews data were analyzed to interpret the findings. This study’s findings have revealed that majority of the participants showed a positive perception of online teaching during the pandemic. But some of the participants showed a neutral perception of online teaching. However, nearly similar numbers of participants do not agree on the effectiveness of online teaching in this Covid-19 outbreak. Although the teachers face various challenges in the online teaching and learning process, they made a great effort towards adopting a new teaching strategy and implementing sufficient online learning tools as the way to motivate online English language learning among primary students.