There were 15 participants of the study who are in their Third year of Bachelor of Secondary Education majoring English and Social Studies. All are females whose ages range from 20 to 21 and pre-test scores conducted in Bahasa Indonesia ranges from 5 as the lowest and 65 as the highest for a test of 100 items. They were assigned codes such as participant 1 as “P1”, participant 2 as “P2” and so on. Pseudonyms were assigned for discussion purposes and to hide the identity of participants.
Six major themes emerged from the pre-service teachers’ experiences of foreign language online learning, including (1) definition of online learning, (2) interest and confidence in the course, (3) positive experiences, (4) negative experiences, (5) attitude towards the online platform and (6) learning barriers. These themes were generated from the thematic analysis following collaizi’s approach. Individual quotes were assigned codes, then these codes were organized to clusters or sub-themes and finally, sub-themes were group to a major theme. Table 3 summarizes the themes generated from the analysis.
Table 3. Thematic Map