Teaching Strategies in Online Reading Classroom during COVID 19 Pandemic: A Case Study

The COVID 19 pandemic has made people familiar with new digital applications and online activities including teaching and learning. Unlike face-to-face learning, teachers can see and interact directly in the online classroom especially for teaching reading. It is important to carry out the English teachers` strategies in promoting reading to the learners. This case study aims to determine the strategies of English teachers in English classrooms, especially strategies for improving reading skills and to find the teaching platform and application tools used by the learners during the online reading classroom in the COVID 19 pandemic. This study was conducted in SMKN 2 OKU with four English teachers. Interview and four class observation are used to collect data. The results show that the strategies of reading aloud in virtual meetings, silent reading and downloaded digital storytelling are the most familiar to teachers in English teaching. The most popular platforms are WhatsApp groups and Zoom meetings and the application used by learners are Kamus Inggris (Kamusku) and google translate. Hopefully, the result of this study can be as the evaluation for the English teachers to implement the various reading strategies in teaching reading especially for both online and offline classroom and introduce some new digital application for reading.