Teaching English in a Rural School

How the Pandemic Affects Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210427.051How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Teachers’ beliefs, teachers’ practices, rural school

Abstract

Indonesian rural teachers are known to have particular obstacles in teaching English. The obstacles are lack of learning sources, inadequate facilities, language barriers, demotivated students, unsupportive parents, and damaged road access. These obstacles seem to have been exacerbated by the current pandemic. A new regulation during the pandemic has demanded schools to be held online. However, a rural school cannot follow the regulation since rural students cannot afford any electronic devices to follow the e-learning, and there isn’t any signal in the students’ residence. In line with this, rural teachers who play a vital role in classrooms should possess positive values and views to survive in teaching the rural students. Therefore, investigating teachers’ beliefs is considered important since teachers’ beliefs are influential to their practices. This study used a case study design by interviewing two English teachers in a rural Jambi school. The interviews were obtained by some stages regarding the needs of gaining their true insights. Offline classroom observations were also conducted to investigate how their beliefs reflected their practices. This study pointed two components: 1) the teachers’ beliefs about teaching English in the rural school, and 2) the impact of the worldwide pandemic on the teachers’ beliefs and practices. This study indicated that the teachers’ beliefs which are derived from their teaching experiences are reflected in their practices. Furthermore, the worldwide pandemic which generates new regulations in teaching has modified the teachers’ views of teaching.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Muthia Shahnaz
AU  - Isti Siti Saleha Gandana
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/28
TI  - Teaching English in a Rural School
BT  - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 334
EP  - 340
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.051
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.051
ID  - Shahnaz2021
ER  -