During the season of pandemic covid-19, every school in Indonesia is asked to carry out distance learning. The teachers are asked to do their learning process through online so that their students would learn from their own home. This policy indirectly makes the students to study in their home independently and require more responsibility and autonomous students. (Atmojo and Nugroho, 2020). Based on the phenomenon, the researcher was interested to describe how teachers’ understanding about learner autonomy and how teachers view and promote it in this pandemic situation.
The researcher applied the descriptive statistic to analyze the data that have collected. The questionnaire would be the instruments in this research. Close ended question and open ended question about learner autonomy which would ask to the teachers who teach in Junior High schools. It presented in five steps of data analyzed procedure: collecting, editing, coding, entering data, interpret.
The result showed that there were 63,4%-93,3% of the teachers who understood learner autonomy and there were 63,4%-96,7% of the teachers who agreed to promote autonomy in pandemic COVID-19. There were several ways that teachers applied in this research in promoting autonomous learning in the situation of COVID-19.