Webinar Forming Professional English Teacher Candidates Amid the Covid 19 Pandemic 

Wednesday, November 3, 2021. The Covid-19 pandemic, which has taken place in early 2020 until now, has had a profound impact on the education sector, including the policy of limiting broad and limited community activities that take place continuously and the prohibition of very long face-to-face learning which also creates various problems in education. high in many countries.

The problems include lack of interaction between lecturers and students, low student motivation due to no perceived competition in face-to-face lectures, not being able to do practicum well, and internet connection problems that do not support smooth online learning.

Seeing this, the UNIPMA English Study Program made several efforts to form professional teacher candidates and remain in an area where students can still convey the learning achievements that must be mastered, and later when they graduate they are able to become professional teacher candidates, by holding a Webinar on October 22 2021 online via zoom meeting and UNIPMA live youtube.

Samsul Arifin, S.Pd., M.Pd. The Head of the English Education Study Program and resource persons at this webinar said that there were two efforts being made, namely ensuring that learning was conveyed properly and adjustment of activities was realized through the Independent Learning-Independent Campus (MBKM) policy. "where students are given the opportunity to get a wider learning experience and new competencies through several learning activities outside their study program," he said.

To ensure the quality of learning is still conveyed properly, Samsul also said that the lecturers in the English Education Study Program have a shared commitment, namely outcome based learning. Many classes can produce outcome based learning, producing a good scientific work. To achieve the formation of professional English teacher candidates.