Receptive and Productive Skills Online Learning During Covid-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 pandemic situation has prevented people from doing their outdoor activities including learning and teaching activities. The challenges faced by EFL classroom lecturers is particularly concerned with the teaching of listening, writing, reading and speaking as part of productive and receptive skills. These skill courses are generally approached using offline system in the classroom which enables the lecturers and the students to have direct interaction. Teaching these courses online would be a challenging task for EFL classroom lecturers as it requires additional technological devices. This study addresses students’ experiences in learning listening and speaking in EFL classroom before and during COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, this study can have positive contribution in providing appropriate and productive teaching methods which is applicable for EFL classroom context. The students’ experiences are elicited through questionnaire method that are analyzed by means of descriptive qualitative research design. This study showed the crucial differences that need to be taken into account by teaching practitioners in the Indonesian context, particularly in teaching English during the COVID-19 pandemic era.