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Boosting Students’ Motivation in Speaking through Blended Learning Susanti, Elis
UICELL No 1 (2017): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2017
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA

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The rapid grows of internet and technology affects the teaching and learning strategy applied in a classroom activity. Nowadays, students are getting more and more interested in the implementation of internet and technology in a teaching and learning process. Due to the fact that the use of on-line learning through the internet increases students’ interest, this study was conducted to find out the effect of blended learning on students’ motivation in speaking. As it is believed that speaking is such a complex skill to be mastered by students, this study is aimed at investigating how students’ motivation turned out to be after one semester taught using blended learning. This is a descriptive quantitative study in which the sample consisted of 34 students of the fourth semester in English Education Study Program STKIP Muhammadiyah Kotabumi. A questionnaire was administered to the research sample in order to collect the data of students’ motivation. Refering to the data analysis, it was found that most of the students’ motivation belongs to high motivation level (52,94%), while 32,36% of the students’ motivation belong to medium level of motivation, and the rest (14,71%) of the students showing low motivation in speaking. The research findings reveal the fact that the use of blended learning is effective to boost students’ motivation in speaking class. Therefore, it is hopefully that the lecturers teaching in this class able to apply the similar strategy in which involving the classroom teaching with internet and technology in order to trigger students’ awareness to learn better.
Reading Material Based Gender and Cultural Familiarity and Its Implementation Susanti, Elis
ELLITE Vol 3, No 1 (2018): ELLITE
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Jember

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The schemata theory in reading explains that in the process of comprehending a reading material, a pre-exsistent knowledge of the readers will be active when they read a piece of reading material in which it presents a familiar vocabulary, patterns, or contexts in which they fit into the readers’ pre-exsistent knowledge. As a result, readers can recognize what they read because it fits into patterns what they already known. This research was categorized as a type of research and development in which it developed a reading material on the basis of the readers’ interest and content  familiarity which was constructed under the concept of  schemata theory in reading. The research stages consisted of conducting praresearch, developing a prototype, validating the prototype, and applying the design to the research sample. The researchers took a class of X social science class in SMAN 1 Abung Semuli consisting of 32 students as the research sample to apply the prototype of this research development product. The data analysis shows that the use of reading material based gender and cultural familiarity gives significant influence on the students’ reading comprehension in which to the conclusion that the prototype of this research product is effective to be used as a reading material in a reading class.