Abstract:
Being a foreign language, mastery of English acquisition is hard for Indonesian learners. The transformation
of teaching and learning in the condition of the COVID-19 outbreak even makes the teaching-and-learning
is more difficult since they previously rely on face-to-face interaction and listening to teachers as the primary
source of learning with unconvincing result. This article explores how undergraduate students cope up
with emergency remote learning. Using exploratory research design, the students learning strategies are
identified. Sixty-four university students who experienced blended learning using Google Classroom for one
semester were recruited to participate in the research. A questionnaire and interview were used to collect
the data. The questionnaire was developed to examine the kinds of effective strategies employed by the
students. The interview aimed to detail their responses so their strategies can be mapped clearly. The
research findings showed that some learning strategies, such as social and cognitive strategies, are more
favorable than others during the pandemic. The condition requires them to make some changes; even
some students found some new techniques for learning. At the end of the article, some implications for
implementing future blended or online learning are highlighted.
Keywords: exploratory study, learning strategies, online learning, EFL, emergency remote learning
