Efl Teacher’s Strategies in Maintaining Students’ Focus During Zoom Meetings

Abstract

This study aims to investigate English teachers' strategies to maintain students' focus in Zoom meetings. This study employed a descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected through interviews with three participants (1 male, 2 female) from a private university in Yogyakarta The in-depth interviews were conducted to investigate teachers' strategies to maintain students' focus on online learning. The data was analyzed using a theme-based analysis method to identify, analyze, and create reports for this research and help categorize and describe the data (Braun and Clarke, 2006). The study's findings showed that three participants used some strategies that can be classified into four themes use variety (eg. Teachers use audio-visual material), encourage student participation (eg. Making group discussion, Using games, for example: teacher asking the students to join the Quizizz and do the quiz), avoid becoming too involved with one student during discussions (eg. Class discussion), and minimize criticism, maximize positive reinforcement (eg. Teacher appreciate students, for example: by saying thank you). Thisresearch investigates strategies employed by lecturers to maintain students' focus. The researcher would like to suggest further research conducted in the offline learning context, and can also investigate the students' perspective regarding the strategies used by teachers to maintain their focus and other problems related to maintaining students' focus.