Critical Discourse Analysis on Difficulties in Teaching English Skills During Pandemic: Indonesian’s English Lecturers Perspectives

This research aims to discover the most difficult English skills to teach during pandemic that compelled education system to shift to online teaching from the perspectives of English lecturers in Indonesia. Those English skills are; speaking, writing, listening, and reading. This research employed survey research design. The participants in this study are 20 English lecturers in various universities and English language courses in Indonesia. The instruments undertaken in this research are questionnaires of the most difficult English skill to teach during online learning and the solution devised to overcome the difficulties by English lecturers in Indonesia, and Critical Discourse Analysis was utilised as the data analysis technique. The findings of this research discovered that majority of English lecturers deemed that speaking as the most difficult English skills to teach during online learning by wide margin, which was approximately 70 % compare to other skills. Speaking deemed as the most difficult one due to these traits; limited online interactions, students’ hesitation and lack of language proficiency. Thus, this research also pointed out the solution devised by the English lecturers and tutors in Indonesia as follow; utilising alternative online media, and facilitating lecturers’ and peer’s feedback