THE PORTRAIT OF EFL TEACHER IN ONLINE LEARNING DURING PANDEMIC COVID-19: A CASE STUDY IN STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL NUMBER 8 JAMBI

Pandemic Covid-19 is still on going in all over the world right now. This influences many things, education system, one of examples. Therefore, teachers should deal with the distance learning because of the pandemic. So that this research addresses to explore the portrait of EFL teacher in online learning during pandemic Covid-19. The particant in this research is an English teacher and and the site of the research is in State Senior High School Number 8 Jambi. The researcher uses case study qualitative research method design. Researcher collects the data through in-depth interview and uses interview protocol to guide the interview. The form of the questions is semi-structured interview which meant that researcher can prolong the interview question during its process of doing the interview with the participant. Findings of the research are explained through some primary themes, they are 1) Teacher’s burnout in online learning, 2) Teachers’ challenges and difficulties in online learning, and 3) Teachers’ solutions to overcome the problems appeared in online learning. Also, there are both positive and negative portrait of online learning in terms of the systems, students’ motivations, and students’ learning objectives.


I. INTRODUCTION
According to the Ministry of Education and Culture (2020), Nadim Makarim said that the major principle of education in Indonesia for this age of pandemic Covid-19 is to accentuate the student's health and safety and to avoid all the doers in the school from the contagious of the virus and to stop its spread. Therefore, Mendikbud asked all the parties involved in this education field to work together. This aims to keep giving the service of education to students by implementing distance learning. This way is able to help students to keep learning and being safe by learning from home. Viner (2020) explains that government is still trying so hard to decrease the spread of the virus of Covid-19 in Indonesia particularly. Since this virus covid has been giving many impacts to social life and also education system, the government set a system of online learning to all schools in Indonesia started from Sabang to Merauke, rural areas to city, and many more. UNESCO (2020a) states that many countries conduct the same system of closing the schools as the way to respond the emergency of public health. There is at least 188 countries impacted by Covid-19 where all the students cannot study at school as long as the pandemic. Still, government in all countries should get a solution for a sustainability of education.
This regulation is a must to be taken by government as a form to reduce the crowd and to lessen the number of people who are contagious the virus. Therefore, distance learning is already conducted from March 2020 to nowdays. The government obligate all schools and institutions from kindergarten to university level to have an online learning. Moorhouse (2020) states that teachers can keep giving the lesson through the use of digital platforms like google classroom, zoom, google meeting, edmodo, whatsapp and many more. The teaching and learning activities are all doing online from discussion, assessment and test, exercise and task, and many more. The process of teaching and learning is at the same time but in different sites. Hence, technology tools are very needed as a means of learning in the age of this pandemic. Both teachers and students can use devices like laptop, computer, or smartphone. They also need to have internet data and good internet connection to success the process of learning. In line with this, many obstacles are owned and faced by both teachers and students. First, the problems faced by students are not all students have devices for online learning.
Due to the numbers of paupers in Indonesia, they just have money to eat. The parents are not able to buy the laptop or even smartphone for their children. On the same hand, some parents may be able to buy their children a smartphone but they cannot buy the internet data too often because they have to fulfill their needs in daily life. Besides, some students who live in rural areas will be difficult to have good internet connection, and many more, (Nambiar, 2020). Those are the major problems faced by students. Meanwhile, teachers also face the problem of having lack on the use of technology. The fact is many teachers in Indonesia, especially senior teachers whose age in about forty to fifty, are not really good at using technology. This, of course, challenges them during this online learning. English teachers, for instance, cannot teach maximally. There are some skills (speaking, listening, writing and reading) that need to be taught by all English teacher. Speaking skill, as in case, is a bit difficult to be taught because the teachers cannot control and train their students' performance directly. The practice of the teaching is also not easy. It can be done but not optimal and efficient. According to the technology tools, EFL teachers can use zoom or google meeting in teaching speaking but the barrier is the students sometime cannot learn well because of connection and their internet data usage. Zoom takes a lot of data so teachers need to consider the students' obstacles too, (Dahwan, 2020).
Regarding to the explanation above, researcher need to find how the EFL teachers struggle with all the problems and challenges faced by them and also their students. Since teachers are the frontliners of education, they are of course knowing all the things happened in that field especially for their own school for teaching. In short, researcher is interested on conducting a research in a goal of exploring the exact portrait of EFL teacher in online learning during this pandemic Covid-19 in State Senior High School Jambi, Indonesia.

II. LITERATURE REVIEW
Ministry of Education and Culture No.15 2020 informs about the distance learning guidelines where it states about study from home. There is no longer activity in school for the unknown long period. As long as there is no information from the goverment to end the distance learning, schools and all the doers will keep doing online learning. The process of teaching and learning that change switch from offline to online learning. Online learning is also known as e-learning. For some schools in Indonesia, e-learning is a new system that switched immediately due to the needs of ending the spread of the virus Covid-19, (Dahwan, 2020). Teachers convice that e-learning and offline learning seem very different in the terms of the effectiveness of classroom interaction, for example. In line with this, Johnson et al (2017) states that inspirational figure is kind of students and teacher interactions as the development growth of the success of learning. Discussing about e-learning and virtual teaching, it is needed to know that the primary way to exist the school is that online learning.
Teachers teach virtually using applications like zoom, google classroom, whatsapp, and so on. Teachers can do face-to-face teaching virtually, (Selwyn, 2013). Teacher's role is essentially impacted to the success of this virtual learning. Particularly explaining the lesson, providing the material, giving exercise and task, assessing students, and many more.
Furthermore, some advantages of online learning are having the flexibility of place and time, having possibility opportunities for teachers and students to build a good relations as long as doing discussion, reducing the cost and motivating those less confidence students to be more active during the e-learning, and many more, (Khalil, 2018). Anderson (2008) then adds another benefit of online learning are assessing the material can be done at anytime. On the other hand, some disadvantages of online learning are students become tirend and bored, interaction between teacher and students cannot go well, the process of teaching and learning is not more effective than offline learning, the use of main devices with its internet data need much cost, the network problem, adequate facilities, economic factors and many more, (Nambiar, 2020).

Research Design
This research was aimed to explore the actual portrait of EFL teachers in online learning during the pandemic Covid-19. Therefore, researcher used exploratory case study.
The method design was qualitative research which purposed to gain participant's view, obstacle, challenge, and insight. Qualitative research method design is drawn descriptively and the data included is not in numbers but words. This research is based on the social and natural setting, (Creswell, 2007).

Data context and participant
This research was conducted in State Senior High School number 8 Jambi, Indonesia.
The participant was a male English foreign language teacher who teach English in both eleven science and social graders. He was selected to participate in this research based on his availability and willingness.

Data collection and analysis
The data was gathered through interview. The interview was held online from the end of January to the middle of February, 2021. It was about two weeks. Researcher interviewed the participant through multiple devices like whatsapp chat, voice note, and also zoom video. Researcher asked the participant's time availability and willingness. So the interview was not conducted in a straight day. Researcher let the participant to note his voice if he wanted to give a long explanation. So participant was allowed to select the way he want to explain his views. Researcher was included in virtual teaching of the participant, that was through zoom on the first day of doing research. The participant allowed the researcher to look at the situation of his virtual teaching directly. After having that short observation, researcher did in-depth interview with the participant. Researcher used semi-structured interview. Researcher prolonged the interview to get the information to meet the research question, and until it saturated. Saturation was also the sign for researcher to end the interview, (Creswell, 2012).
After collecting all data information, researcher initiated the analysis by transcribing the data collected. Researcher was helped the supervisor to check the data transcripts. In the next process of analyzing, researcher showed the data transcript to participant. Participant was allowed to check the originality and reliability and to avoid the bias of the data written 98. MELT Journal, Vol 6, Issue 1, December 2021 ISSN:2528-0287 by researcher. Furthermore, researcher gathered the data based on its similarities and difficulties, and eliminate the pointless data. Researcher then coded the data and categorized themes and sub-themes for the findings. Researcher named the themes and started to report it all, (Creswell, 2007).

IV. FINDINGS
The findings of the research were purposed to meet the research question. Based on the data interview, some major findings showed about 1) Teacher's burnout in online learning, 2) Teachers' challenges and difficulties in online learning, and 3) Teachers' solutions to overcome the problems appeared in online learning. "There are so many workloads and I can not manage them well. During this virtual teaching, everything is not well-organized. I cannot be disciplined".

Teachers' challenges and difficulties in teaching online
Teachers' problems will always be there as long as it is online learning. In short, there are a lot of problems when teachers teach students face to face in the class as well as it is teaching online where teachers cannot meet the students directly.
"I find many obstacles in online learning. The obstacles come from me myself, my students, and also the activities done during the class".
"My own difficulty was that having lack ability in using technology, I am not really

Teachers' solutions to overcome the obstacles on online learning
Based on the obstacles above, teachers need to decrease them all because there is no exact time when this online learning will be ended due to the case of Covid-19. Teacher is one of the primary key to success the learning of teaching and learning. In his interview, participant mentioned some of solutions to overcome the obstacles that teacher and student faced in online learning. parents is also a vital role in helping students to success in learning".

V. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
The findings indicate that having online learning is as a way of government to keep the education done during this pandemic. Online learning sets a learning from home, so both students and teachers keep learning at its time and it is done in different places. Teachers and students will meet in online class through the use of online learning platforms like google classroom, google meeting, zooms, whatsapp and many more. As the frontliner of doing this online learning, teachers (especially English foreign language teachers) should be ready with all the pros and cons of implementing online learning.
In line with this, the obstacles that mostly faced by EFL teachers as long as online learning, they are struggling with the difficulties of utilizing online learning platforms, being more discipline and well-organized to avoid the burnout of online learning, using a simple language in explaining the material, giving a clear directions to students, providing attractive power point and interesting teaching aids like video, applying appropriate teaching method, finding a suitable learning platform for a particular topic and skill like pronounciation, listening sessions and so on, controlling student's learning progress and development, managing classroom interaction during the online class, handling all the activities of learning online like checking students' exercises, tasks or assignment, encouraging less motivation students, approaching students who are bored, ignorant and lazy during the online learning, building a good cooperation with students' parents to monitor the students' learning progress at home, and dealing with all the technical problems such as bad internet connection, internet data costs, economy issues, and many more.
To sum up, all the difficulties and challenges EFL tecahers and students faced during the online learning are able to solved and managed well by some solutions. EFL teacher who participate in this research overcome the problems by improving his ability to work with the technology tools as the means of implementing online learning. In some topics that EFL teacher faced during online learning, the participant seek to find the best online platforms to handle the problem on teaching some skills like pronounciation, listening, reading and speaking. This age, there are a lot of learning websites that provide many kinds of teaching and learning activities that EFL teacher can do in their class. The main point is that EFL teachers should make the learning simple. EFL teachers attempt to not give a lot of homework to students. Besides, the cause of less interests and less motivation students are the same teaching method and learning activities they have in the class, thus teachers ought to have a mix of teaching strategies and fun learning to make the class keep alive. Teacher's role, in a nutshell, is never ever be replaced by technology. Technology helps only. It facilitates the teachers to ease the teaching and learning. Then, last but not least, teachers and students should work together to success the online learning because one of governments' priorities right now is that to keep the students and teachers' health and to make them safe through studying from home and staying at home.