Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn)
Vol 12, No 3: August 2018

Detecting Major Problems in Learning English Through Blog-based Class

Budianto Hamuddin (Universitas Lancang Kuning, Pekanbaru. Indonesia)
Kurniawan Kurniawan (Universitas Lancang Kuning, Pekanbaru. Indonesia)
Syaifullah Syaifullah (Universitas Lancang Kuning, Pekanbaru. Indonesia)
Herdi Herdi (Universitas Lancang Kuning, Pekanbaru. Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Aug 2018

Abstract

Students’ blog in PBIG Unilak have been used to promote English skills during these two years. This mixed method study aimed to identify and describes the major problems faced by the students during the implementation of blogging based class. This study based its data from 168 students who attended 5 different classes based-blog. Employing a total sampling technique, the students were invited to fill up online questionnaire and interview. However, only 161 feedbacks can be processed. The analysis in this study reveals there are three major problems in blog-based class, which significantly contributed to an unproductive learning process atmosphere at PBIG Unilak namely: Lack of confidence in posting article and comments in the blog; Lack of IT skills and Cyberbullying.

Copyrights © 2018






Journal Info

Abbrev

EduLearn

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Library & Information Science Social Sciences Other

Description

Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn) ISSN: 2089-9823, e-ISSN 2302-9277 is a multi-disciplinary, peer-refereed open-access international journal which has been established for the dissemination of state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of education, teaching, development, instruction, ...