AN ANALYSIS TEACHERS’ STRATEGIES IN TEACHING WRITING SKILL THROUGH E-LEARNING DURING COVID-19 (A Descriptive Study at SMAN 5 Banda Aceh)

This study aims to describe the teachers’ strategy in teaching writing skills to students at SMA N 5 Banda Aceh during the Covid-19. This was done determine what strategies the teacher applied in teaching writing skill to students SMA N 5 Banda Aceh in the implementation of the teaching and learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic. The methodology used in this research is a qualitative method. The research subjects were teachers’ at SMA N 5 Banda Aceh. Research instruments used documentation and interviews. Data were collected through interviews with English teachers. The data analysis technique used in this study is an interactive model analysis adopted Miles and Huberman (2014), namely: reducing data, presenting data and concluding. The results showed that the strategies used by two teachers were the question and answer strategy, and integrated art. One solution to implementing the learning process is to be creative and innovative in learning. The strategies and methods used in distance learning are different from the face to face learning process. Distance learning during Covid-19 also made it a habit to use technology such as computers, laptop, internet and soon. The weakness in this study only uses an interview instrument which is carried out with two different objects, namely teachers and students so that the result can only be done at this time and are not effective for the others. The suggestion in this study have some suggestion namely: the teacher must use the E-learning platform optimally in carrying out the teaching and learning process, must be creative and innovative in educating their students, the teachers should have some new strategies to help teaching and learning process especially in this pandemic.