This study analysed the teaching strategies used by English teachers to promote students’ writing skills amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The objective of this study were as follows: 1) to know the teaching strategies EFL teachers use to promote students’ writing skills amid the COVID-19 outbreak, 2) to know how EFL teachers apply the teaching strategies to promote students’ writing skills amid the COVID-19 outbreak, 3) to investigate the students’ perspective on teaching strategies applied by EFL teachers in teaching writing amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

This research used qualitative research approach and applied phenomenology design to discover the phenomenon of writing teaching strategy based on the research questions of what and how a particular strategy was applied in the processes of online writing class amid the COVID-19 outbreak at High School. The subjects of this research were teachers and students of English class, consisted of 3 English teachers and all students from grades X and XI. The primary data was from the teachers and student interaction observation while learning English writing online. The secondary data in this research was gathered from library, websites, and journal articles. The data for this research were taken from English writing teachers to get information about teaching strategies and students’ perspectives on implementing the teaching strategies. There were some techniques in collecting the research data, as follows questionnaire, interview, and document analysis. As the triangulation data used in this research, the researcher used the data source triangulation. Then, the researcher analyzed the data through some steps such as data condensation, data display, and drawing conclusion or verification.

The result of this study can be seen that there were several kinds of teaching strategies that the teachers used in teaching writing amid Covid-19 outbreak. These strategies are: demonstrating, motivating, giving feedback, and evaluating student’s task. Furthermmore, the way the teachers implemented the teaching strategies as follows: 1) giving the students direct instruction about teaching materials through google meet. 2) The teachers also implemented collaborative teaching by giving the students tasks to do personally or in a group or discussion. 3) The last strategy that the teachers use is self- directed teaching in which the teachers give the students one particular material that they need to study alone by the help of online source. Finally, it can also be concluded that the student’s perception towards these strategies are; 1) mostly the students who studied English writing find that the teachers strategy in teaching is difficult. It is proved by the highest percentages of this difficult category at average 49% in combined. 2) The least percentage is fun category in which approximately 20% of the students thought that learning material online is a fun thing to do. 3) The last category is fair in which around 29% of the students have no problem towards teachers’ strategies in teaching writing online amid Covid-19 outbreak.