An Analysis of the English Teachers’ Ability in Creating Online Teaching Media at Surabaya and Sidoarjo Islamic Senior High Schools
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https://doi.org/10.36456/jet.v1.n01.2016.1257Abstract
As an English teacher, teacher must be able to develop a
good teaching media. Traditional textbooks, while useful, are
insufficient to address many questions. As a result, teachers try to
look for another resources, social networks, and the web for
answers to their questions. This study focuses on the teachers’
ability in creating online teaching media at Surabaya and Sidoarjo
Senior High School. This study also portrays the challenges and
the opportunity of the online teaching media usage. It also covers
the information about language preferably used by teacher in the
online teaching media usage. Nine teachers are chosen from
Surabaya and Sidoarjo as the subject of the study. Quantitative and
Qualitative approach is used as the design of the research.
Interview and documentation are used to collect the data. Next, the
data are analyzed by using Likert Scale followed by triangulation.
The result shows that teachers’ ability in creating teaching media is
good. The challenges of online teaching media usage are school
facilities, time management and school regulation. The opportunity
of online teaching media usage are active learner, monitoring role
and active teachers. The language preferably used by teachers on
their online teaching media are English Indonesia, English and
English Arabic.