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Inspired by lecturers’ experience of Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) during the COVID-19 pandemic, this phenomenological study presents an attempt at producing recommendations for the future construction of virtual language classes in Indonesia. The employed methodology was to carry out a focus group interview in order to collect research data and analyze them through Giorgi’s (2012) 5-step procedure. First, researchers read the transcribed interview to get the whole sense of data while, in their efforts, reducing them into themes. Second, the absence of research bias was assured throughout data reduction. Third, meaningful comments were separated in order to group explicit phenomena according to their themes. Fourth, the themes were examined to structure the recorded participants’ perceptions, and finally the structure was clarified and interpreted. Three themes emerged and were structured to produce recommendations for the future construction of virtual language classes in Indonesia. Further research needs to be conducted to investigate the effective peer-teaching to increase the interactivity of students’ learning in virtual language classes and the absence of a virtual classroom model recommended in The Guidelines for The Development of Higher Education Curriculum in the Industrial Era 4.0 to Support Independent Learning – Independent Campus issued by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
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