An analysis of the English teachers ability in creating online teaching media at Surabaya and Sidoarjo Islamic senior high schools

As an English teacher, teacher must be able to develop a good teaching media. Traditional textbooks, while useful, are insufficient to address many questions. As a result, teachers try to look for another resources, social networks, and the web for answers to their questions. This study focuses on the teachers ability in creating online teaching media at Surabaya and Sidoarjo Senior High School. This study also portrays the challenges and the opportunity of the online teaching media usage. It also covers the information about language preferably used by teacher in the online teaching media usage. Nine teachers are chosen from Surabaya and Sidoarjo as the subject of the study. Quantitative and Qualitative approach is used as the design of the research. Interview and documentation are used to collect the data. Next, the data are analyzed by using Likert Scale followed by triangulation. The result shows that teachers’ ability in creating teaching media is good. The challenges of online teaching media usage are school facilities, time management and school regulation. The opportunity of online teaching media usage are active learner, monitoring role and active teachers. The language preferably used by teachers on their online teaching media are English Indonesia, English and English Arabic.