Students‟ emotion is one of significant aspects that could not be ignored in
teaching learning activity especially in distance learning. This research aimed to
answer the emotional geographies encountered by English Education students and
how they overcome the emotional geographies in distance learning during the
pandemic covid-19.
A case study was used in this research. The participants of this study involved
10 English Education students of Antasari State Islamic University Banjarmasin who
lived in rural area. Furthermore, the data were collected through interview, then
analysed by doing data reduction, encoding, data display (classifying and analyzing),
and drawing conclusions.
The results showed that the English Education students encountered five
emotional geographies, they were physical geography, moral geography,
sociocultural geography, professional geography and political geography.
Furthermore, the English Education students overcome the problem of emotional
geographies such as physical geography, politic geography, and moral geography.
They tried to look for other places to study if their houses was not conducive enough
to study. The problem of internet and quota was also can be solved since the campus
had already provide the quota for students.