English Instructional Process During Covid-19 Pandemic at Islamic Secondary School-RIAB Aceh

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on education. Many schools diverted online learning to their respective homes due to activity restrictions. The existence of this sudden diversion certainly brings up something new that has never been felt or predicted before. Therefore, this research aims to identify the learning process, constraints, and teacher strategies during the pandemic. This study used a qualitative design to achieve this goal. Research data was collected using semi-structured interviews. The participants were three teachers selected using purposive sampling based on the criteria of being active in teaching English. The results showed that (1) teachers who did online learning felt a difference; a changed in their ways of teaching. They communicate virtually using technology, and they had to be able to use technology as a learning effort that could still be carried out. (2) The constraints were the application of technology for online learning, delivering learning material, giving assignments to students, student's boredom, the unevenness of the devices owned, and the internet connection due to the different backgrounds of students. (3) The strategy used for problem-solving was that the teacher used the teleconference application to hold meetings with students so that they knew these constraints and understand the conditions of their students. Situational language teaching was used as a strategy to increase student learning enthusiasm. Even so, this strategy was not perfect if it still had advantages and disadvantages, such as using learning time, which was still inefficient.