PBI_Advanced Reading_Kelas B_2021/2022

Giok Fing Liguan (2013042050)

1. https://archive.aessweb.com/index.php/5019/article/view/439

2. Due to the large number of applications on smartphones, such as bilingual dictionaries, MP3, video, PDF, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and web-based language learning sites, causing researchers conduct research in language learning and teaching is the use of mobile assisted language learning (MALL). The researchers conducted a trial with several students regarding the use of WhatsApp English groups to enhace reading and writing skills for EFL learners. The researcher found a significant development in students‟ performance grammatically, lexically, in length  of  their  writing  and  in  their  readingcomprehension  as well.  This  development  reflects  that  WhatsApp  chatting  and  other  activities  shared  in  the  group  helped  them  in improving their reading comprehension and writing skills.

3. Currently WA is the most widely used application by almost every group to communicate. For this reason, the research conducted by the author is quite effective to enhace reading and writing skills for EFL learners. It also provides good opportunities for students to practice English as a communication tool and helps them to learn from each other. In my opinion, the activeness and desire of each student is the main factor in improving their skills.

Zalfara Tiar Khoirunisa (2013042014)

1. http://jurnal.fkip.unila.ac.id/index.php/123/article/view/22971

2. EFL students have difficulties using the language because certain psychological and social variables confine the chance of having more effective communication in the target language, some of the students’ problems in speaking that psychological problems like anxiety, hesitation, and inhibition give a negative influence on his participants in learning language communication. To solve the problem, teachers can use several ways in their teaching activities. One of the alternatives is blended learning. Since the use of blended learning combined teaching and learning processes in offline and online classes, it provides many benefits for teachers and students. The rapid development of technology provides many advantages for teachers and students. One of which is the existence of social media YouTube. Using YouTube as teaching media can be a great choice for teachers in teaching English language speaking. Therefore, this research aimed to investigate whether there is a significant improvement in students’ speaking achievementand to see how students respond to the implementation of blended learning through YouTube media in speaking class.

This research used One Group Time Series Design of Quasi-Experimental as the research design and used a close-ended questionnaire with 4 scales (strongly agree, agree, disagree, and strongly disagree). The result showed that the percentage of students’ choices in most items of the questionnaire was categorized as positive and indicated that there was a significant improvement in students’ speaking achievement after the use of blended learning through YouTube media.

3. Youtube as a learning and teaching media has now become commonplace, almost all people use YouTube to explore more, by using the YouTube application as a learning media for EFL students it will feel more fun and will be easily understood by students, so students will be more motivated to learn their speaking skills. In my opinion, the research used is quite effective with a fairly accurate method, it can be proven that the use of YouTube as a media for learning to speaking is more effective for students.

2. The background of the article explains that, Lack of Practice and Exposure faced by learners in the context of EFL Koreans have difficulty in speaking English. In this case, it is necessary to have a tool and method to improve English speaking skills in learners in Korean EFL contexts. Besides that, This study uses Blended learning which is combined with the use of mobile devices and social networking which will result in how the impact of use on mobile-assisted blended learning (MABL) of certain students as research subjects. Meanwhile, for the Findings of the article showed that, the MABL implementation positively improved the students’ speaking profiency also the aspects such as intelligibility and comprehensibility.

3. In the article I have read, mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) is one of the online learning support tools between teachers and learners that utilizes mobile devices, it’s said to be efficient and effective also to overcome an existing challenge or difficulty based on the according of researchers. MALL is one of the most important parts in providing convenience related to this blended learning process. Besides, the researcher explained that the concepts of blended learning and MALL as mobile-assisted blended learning (MABL) can measures its effectiveness in improving language learners’ speaking proficiency in a foreign context. Where Speaking proficiency is one part of the EFL context for Learners. Which speaking proficiency turns in emphasizing elements such as the existence of Intelligibility and Comprehensibility of speech related with speaking skills learners.

1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100772

2. The research means to identifying relevant teacher characteristics that have a big impact on how blended learning is implemented in higher education. As blended learning is appreciated in higher education for a variety of reasons, including meeting students' requirements for flexibility, putting it into practice remains a difficult task. Because the teacher is at the center of any educational transformation, the current qualitative study examines key teacher characteristics for blended learning implementation from the perspective of experts. Experts can decipher the underlying structures of complicated organizational challenges and possess process expertise that can be put to use.

3. From my proofreading it can be concluded that the implementation of blended learning is challenging on some ways. The teacher's role is crucial. The research aims is to investigating teacher atributes from experts perspective, since experts are able to analyze deep structures of complex practical problems and more contextual process knowledge than teachers.

Elfira Lutfi (2013042018)

1. http://dx.doi.org/10.18823/asiatefl.2020.17.4.14.1377

2. The background of this article is the demand for English proficient workers in Thailand, considering that Thailand has entered the global market and also the implementation of economic technology is increasing, so that every student who graduates needs to have abilities in English, especially speaking skills. Unfortunately, the current situation of English language teaching and learning in Thailand's educational institutions still seems unprepared to adapt. Most Thai students do not have speaking skills because they are rarely exposed to English communication in everyday life. Another reason is that they lack motivation and interest in English because they do not recognize the need for using it, also the teaching system is still traditional and purely uses a lecture-based instruction when in classroom activities, resulting in a lack of participation and interest. Thus, blended learning is applied in this study as the best alternative to embrace this challenge considering that students nowadays are keen in using technology.

3. After reading the article, I feel that there are similarities between the conditions in Thai education and in Indonesia. The effects of blended learning do affect the improvement of students' skills in the classroom and also their motivation because the learning experiences felt both from online and offline mode provided them with great learning flexibility. However, this does not apply to all circles, because some students still cannot blend in with the system. Not to mention, most teachers actually consider the emergence of an additional workload because they have to be more flexible, open-minded, and have to understand further technology as a facilitator and learning instrument, even though the realization of blended learning is one of the alternative in the current educational environment.

1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07511
2. the covid-19 pandemic made the education worldwide has to be done virtually. but the problem is that there are students who live in areas far from cities, while learning in an interconnected world should be done virtually. The research aims to build a learning framework that can be used as a distance learning facility in remote areas in Indonesia. The resulting theoretical framework regarding community radio-based blended learning models contribute as a promising alternative learning solution in remote areas.
3. After reading and understanding the article, I realized that the radio community today has not yet used for the educational purpose. but the radio community can be used as an option during this pandemic in remote areas where internet access is hard to get. Radio-based blended learning is one of the best alternative options for delivering learning in remote areas in Indonesia.

1. http://dx.doi.org/10.18823/asiatefl.2018.15.2.7.365
2. This article is about how technology or more specifically blended learning can be more optimal in learning. Researchers have emphasized how technology can improve language learning. In this study, they found that the participants improved their skills to distinguish various English writing styles, and that they have a positive perception of the blended learning environment.
3. From this article, I can conclude that the application of blended learning can facilitate learning behavior and proficiency levels. Because between traditional learning and online learning each has its own shortcomings, and it would be better if they were combined. Because independent learning also has an important role to increase student understanding, and technology allows and encourages learners to be more independent. The results of the analysis in this article show that blended learning is better than traditional or face to face learning. And instructors utilize a blended learning environment to improve student outcomes such as speaking, reading, and vocabulary achievement, in a way that may not be realized through face-to-face learning.

1. http://dx.doi.org/10.18823/asiatefl.2020.17.4.5.1236

2. Due to the rapid development of information technology in the 2000s, the EFL course curricula in Korean colleges have significantly been reorganized in order to incorporate the benefits of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) or multimedia-assisted language learning (MALL). Korea boasts high-speed internet connection nationwide, making it possible to offer easy internet access for users almost everywhere in the country. This resulted in an explosion of online education and distance learning in Korea. Therefore, according to Cho, Moon, and Lee (1997), multimedia/internet-assisted education setting was gradually incorporated into college English classrooms in Korea as an effective means of improving students’ overall English proficiency. However, there has been little research in previous literature on the longitudinal effect of second language (L2) learning motivation and demotivation of college students taking an English language course where blended learning was applied. Based on the findings, we can conclude that the online-offline blended English learning classes, implemented at the participating university, had a positive influence on promoting students’ self confidence and motivation in speaking and learning English as a foreign language. The current research has an educational implication. The participants’ English learning motivation was maintained for a full academic year in an online-offline blended L2 course. Usually, students’ L2 learning motivation tends to decrease as learning progresses (Kim, 2011, 2012). The balance between online individual study and offline face-to-face interactions resulted in an increase in students’ individual study hours and frequency of English interaction in class.

3. After I read the journal, I got information that a university in Korea who implemented online-offline blended learning is considered more useful for students than just on-site instruction classes. This learning module also shows a high level of satisfaction because it has a statistically positive impact on students' English abilities. With a longitudinal analysis where research is carried out by comparing changes in research subjects after a certain period of time in the long term, we can clearly see changes in motivation, de (motivation), and also confidence in students from beginning to end.

1. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2282881
2. Life goes fast as is what happens in the world of education. Technological advances have revolutionized the world of education to be more advanced and established, especially for distance teaching. Online learning has also begun to be widely implemented, but of course this had advantages and disadvantages. Because the e-learning environment presents several processes such as individual socialization which causes a lack of face-to-face communication, this new environment combines e-learning and a classical learning environment into one, which is then known as blended learning, hybrid or mixed learning. The main goal is to overcome the weaknesses of pure online teaching, because pure e-learning or traditional learning has several advantages and disadvantages, it would be better if we can combine the strengths of the two learning environments to develop new learning methods.
3. The article discusses blended learning which is better than e-learning, which is shown by the several advantages of blended learning. In my opinion, this article is quite relevant because it quotes from many journals or other articles, but it would be better if the author conducted direct research on students in order to obtain much more concrete data. But so far I agree that the components or activities in blended learning can eliminate fatigue and frustration due to online learning.

1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337889407_The_Use_of_Blended_Learning_Approach_in_EFL_Education

2. In the 21st century, traditional language teaching methodologies have been intensively replaced by the new technological-integrated approaches. Blended learning is an approach used in education by combining traditional approaches with technological-integrated approaches. Currently, blended learning has an important role in the teaching and learning process in EFL. Some of the important roles of blended learning are that it provides a flexible language learning platform, endorses the academic achievements of the learners, and influences EFL education.

3. The use of blended learning today is very useful in education. Blended learning is very useful because it can be done anywhere and anytime with a flexible learning platform in the teaching and learning process. Blended learning can also increase the motivation of EFL learners to learn and practice the language they are learning inside and outside the classroom. In addition, the use of blended learning also has disadvantages in the process. One of the disadvantages is that teachers cannot monitor activities outside the classroom of their students so that it can affect the success of blended learning in learning for EFL.

1. https://journal.uny.ac.id/index.php/jpv/article/view/42495
2. This journal entitled : Blended Learning During Pandemic Corona Virus: Teachers’ and Students’ Perceptions.
The background of this article is about the pandemic coronavirus that is forcing educational institutions to shift rapidly to distance and online learning. It forces teachers and students to apply blended learning even though they may not be ready to teach and learn in fully online contexts. Hence, this research aims to explore teachers' and students' perceptions at Parahikma Institute of Indonesia regarding the use of blended learning as media learning during the pandemic coronavirus.
3. My brief statement about the article is :
First, teachers perceived that blended learning has some advantages; effective learning, autonomous learning, and easy to use. Meanwhile, they also mentioned some challenges to deal with when applied blended learning, they are poor internet connection, time consuming, and less of experiences. Second, students perceived that the implementations of blended learning are flexible, motivated, interactive, and improved ICT skills. Nevertheless, some of them reported that they also had some challenges dealing with learning by using blended learning, such as internet connection and incomprehensible materials. And also for me, this research result has similarities with the online lectures that I am currently doing, where there are advantages and disadvantages in its implementation.

1. doi: 10.24193/adn.11.1.5

2. Since Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) spread across almost all segments
of modern society, including education,
a relatively new concept of learning and teaching arose from the ICT influences on education. This is
blended learning, defined as a combination of instructional modalities, especially face-to-face and
online learning (Tayebinik & Puteh, 2012). Thus, blended learning is a mixture of traditional and
paperless (digital) classroom. It is probably a better way of delivering teaching materials and feedback
for the new generations of students in all levels of education. Furthermore, this kind of learning is applicable to English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom.

Attitudes toward blended learning, according to some authors, can be examined within the following
six learning aspects: learning flexibility, study management, technology, online learning, online
interaction, and classroom learning (Tang & Chaw, 2013). Attitudes investigated in such a way are
indicators of student's readiness for blended learning. Moreover, some important and pedagogically relevant benefits of blended learning were listed. It generates
interest in the class, enhances students' language skills, fosters deeper learning, motivates students, as well as makes them inspired, active, and more involved in technology (Abdelhak, 2015). It was determined that blended learning yielded better academic performance compared to learning delivered
only online (Slomanson, 2014). However, some EFL students think blended learning makes them socially isolated and is sometimes difficult to do, frustrating, or a waste of time (Ja'ashan, 2015).

3. From the ICT that develops across almost segments of human, including education, we could understand that blended learning, paperless classroom, virtual classroom, digital/online learning, etc. are concepts and
terms that inevitably should be in the vocabulary of every modern professional within educational
sciences in the present days. Hence, we should take the advantages of it to maximize students' learning space because we can study everywhere and not only in the classroom.

Mahlan syahid Assofi_2013042048

1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.09.248

2. The background of the journal that I read is the e-learning trend that is currently emerging, so the researcher wants to convey several perspectives from blended learning itself. I found several things in this journal, namely the definition of blended learning from several perspectives such as the Holistic Perspective, the Educational Perspective, the Pragmatic Perspective, the Corporate Training Perspective and the Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Perspective. Then the journal also explains about the media used and the methods that can be applied such as traditional classrooms, virtual classrooms, live product practice labs, interactive chatrooms and mentoring. Then there are also challenges that must be overcome when implementing this blended learning. Finally, in this journal, we explain the advantages and recommendations for its implementation in the future.

3. I think this journal is good even though it was published in 2013 but much of the contents of this journal are happening at this time. And there are even recommendations that I think are good if implemented now. However, this journal does not explain the shortcomings of the blended learning, which should be a reference as well when later this method will be applied so that these shortcomings can be overcome

Akbar Tantowi 2013042046
1. https://ejournal.undiksha.ac.id/index.php/JPP/article/view/29703/pdf

2. The background of this article is to obtain information about the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on online learning and teaching in junior high schools, high schools, vocational high schools, and universities. This article also finds the advantages and disadvantages of online learning. The advantage of online learning is that online learning can provide students with more meaningful learning experience and provide a new experience that is more challenging than conventional learning model. In addition, online learning can also improve students' reading and typing skills. As for the disadvantages, online learning makes students less motivated, and also increases the number of tasks significantly. Even the educators feel tired and weary.

3. Through this article, I learned that online learning not only makes it difficult for students to learn but also makes it difficult for teachers to teach. But with this article, it is hoped that it can help students and teachers overcome problems when doing online learning. The contents of this article are also very accurate in discussing online learning, perhaps because this article was written in 2021 when online learning must be done everywhere.

1. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1177040

2. The article examines students' attitudes toward blended learning and related concepts (e.g. paperless and traditional classroom). Based on expertise statements, attitudes toward blended learning can be divided into six learning aspects: learning flexibility, study management, technology, online learning, online interaction, and classroom learning (Tang & Chaw, 2013). Attitudes investigated in such a way are indicators of students' readiness for blended learning. To identify the main purpose, this article provides several detailed questions to be answered within this research. The study revealed that students prefer blended learning to a traditional classroom in an EFL context. However, they liked to take English exams in paper-and-pencil form, rather than in digital form as for submitting English assignments online.

3. Current learning process can't be separated by the advanced technology. As young generations, technology is very close to our life and the emergence of blended learning is such as a perfect combination to combine traditional with the technology learning processes. In this term, teacher helps is still needed for students to how to apply the technology in their study. Besides, through this kind of method, students are also increased on study's motivation: however, in the advanced technology, we can't avoid completely about traditional form. Because this study only focuses on students' attitudes, it doesn't provide on what it has weaknesses applied by teachers along learning-teaching. Thus, this study suggests several topics to examine in-depth about blended learning.

Febby Sarah Cilcila
2013042008

1. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=848342

2. The background of the article is to explain that today’s educational institutions are expected to create learning opportunities independent of time and place, to offer easily accessible learning environments and interpersonal communication opportunities. Accordingly, higher education institutions develop strategies to meet these expectations through teaching strategies, such as e-learning, blended learning, mobile learning, etc., by using teaching technologies. These new technology-based teaching strategies are mainly shaped by decision-makers in education. This study seeks to analyse the individual factors that affect learners’ mode of teaching and learning delivery preferences. In this study, blended and online learning is considered as preferences of learners’ mode of teaching and learning delivery. The individual factors discussed in this research are cognitive learning strategies, e-learning readiness, and motivation.

3. The study discovered a correlation between the dimensions of self-efficacy, e-learning motivation, and task value and the preference for form of teachinglearning delivery. Blended learning settings were chosen by students with a high task value, e-learning motivation, and self-efficacy. In this regard, Pechenkina and Aeschliman (2017) reported that among the main reasons why students prefer blended learning to fully face-to-face or online education are factors like flexibility, accessibility, and opportunities for face-to-face encounters in combination with streamlined feedback provision. Learners can get support more quickly in blended learning than in online learning, according to Lim, Morris, and Kupritz (2007). Blended learning options are thought to have a considerable impact on students' preferences for groups with high task value, e-learning motivation, and self-efficacy.

Asyifa Nur Sya'adah (2013042028)

DOI:10.5430/wjel.v12n1p92

“The Effectiveness of the Blended Learning in Enhancing EFL Learning and Collaboration”

This descriptive-analytical study investigates undergraduates' perceptions and reflections toward adopting the Blended-Learning system in the university instructions.
from the analysis carried out, get the result that the undergraduates' positive perceptions toward combining online and face-to-face learning and how this environment improved their learning outcomes, created a collaborative community, fostered openness for sharing, asking, expressing, and getting talk-worthy ideas.
In my opinion, those who feel the transition from full offline learning to full online learning, this is true, usually when we study in class the information we get is only from teachers who explain or books, whereas when learning online students can access the internet to get more information from online journals and articles.
and about encouraging openness to share, ask questions, I think this depends on each individual because there are students who when in class are quiet, when online learning is even more silent, they don't want to ask or give their opinions.
and the negative effect is that they encountered a few challenges in online classes like: missed face-to-face warm environment, lost attention, and missed instructors' nonverbal cues.

1. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1124666.pdf
2. The educational system at present is in a transition stage. To meet the challenges of expansion and for catering individuals need it is trying to adopt new technologies and
exploring new paths to reach the goal of quality educational opportunities for all.
3. Blended learning is an innovative concept that embraces the advantages of both traditional teaching in the classroom and ICT supported learning including both offline learning and online learning and i'm very agree with this method rather than full online course