ELT's Essay Nurhidayat 3C

8/19/2019 ELT's Essay Nurhidayat 3C

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Technology everywhere, would you like to upgrade your teaching mediamy lecturers

The new civili!ation comes rapidly" #t $rings an upgreada$le devices,gadgets, and visual media which in%uence whole o& human aspects o& li&e"#n the educational 'eld, new digital technologies, and the internet, areincreasingly $ene'cial &or educational purposes" Computers, the internet,and advanced electronic devices can(t $e separated &rom its role asstudents( help&ul goods in gathering an up)to)date knowledge, there&orethe rapid development o& technology a*ects the way teachers to teachand students to learn" +s long as a technological 'eld developed rapidly,there are recent innovations $ecoming online or advanced device as amedia involved in teaching learning activities such as its implementationin assessing reading comprehension, its role in training -. teachertrainees( pronunciation, and its use in teaching listening"

#n teaching reading, it had $een &ound a so&tware that can integratea reading activity with online social media application" #t is /uestion riter

/ 3" an 4nline 5eading +ssessment 45+ " #t is paid so&twareapplication system especially developed &or online assessment" #t canper&orm various types o& uestion &ormats with the students( responsesdirectly &orwaded to the teacher(s e)mail, and &eed$acks and scoringsautomatically per&ormed $y the system" #n the current study, a discussiongroup called 75eading aniacs( was created in -ace$ook &or the studentsto get access to $oth reading materials and assessments" #t has $eenimplemented in three &aculties in 9tiku$ank :niversity o& 9emarang"-urthermore, 4nline 5eading +ssessment 45+ can $e accessed viadekstop computer, laptop, gadgets or even smart mo$ole phones" Thus, it

really encourages &reedom o& modes o& teaching and learning" #n otherwords, interaction $etween the teacher and the students does not have to$e &ace)to)&ace interactional mode"

Teaching pronunciation &or -. students is totally di*erent &romnative speakers" The most challenging one is the teacher(s traineespronunciation itsel&" Teachers training in improving their pronunciation isvery di;cult, due to no appropriate learning sources which &acilitate them".ack o& innovation in impoving -. teacher trainees( pronunciation $rings

their pronunciation getting worse" Calvo <en!ies 2013 9uggest that theparticipants &ound the pronunciation activities monotonous mainly



listening and repeating tasks with almost no songs, games, or the use o& computer programs and the internet" #n answering that challenge, the newinnovation conducted $y ksi 2016 is the use o& 4nline Te=t)to)9peech

Tools" #t can $e used &or improving -. teacher trainees( pronunciation"

#n teaching listening, an innovation $ased on the advancetechnological devices also takes a role" + conventional media such asusing audio materials does not look such an interesting media in teachinglistening among university students, $ecause it only provides an audioand no other variation contained" +mpa 201 stated that such learningmedia make the students $ored, $ecause there is the lack o& variation,such as the use o& video, animation, graphics etc" in $reaking thatchallenge, #nteractive ultimedia .earning aterials using ondershare/ui!creator comes as a promising solution" Throuh it, students can $emotivated to learn, $ecause they can listen to audio, watch the video orview the te=t, animation and graphics simultaneously" #t consists o& te=tand video o& dialogue and monologue that are designed interactively withthe users" The program used to prepare the materials is the ondershare/ui!creator" it is one o& the programs that lets the educators createe=ercises o& learning materials, $esides, it can also make ui! with thelimit, and provide instant review as well as &eed$ack" There&ore, thestudents( per&ormance in english listening can $e measured with a sel&)grading system"

The development o& technology can(t $e denied" 9uch innovationsgive the new ideas &or the lecturers in innovating their classroom teachingand learning media especially in nglish >epartement o& 9wadaya ?unung

@ati :niversity which the most o& the lecturers still use a conventionalmedia &or teaching their classes" +ccording to <ester and <rand as citedin ksi, yesilcinar, 2016 #ntegrating #n&ormation and Communication

Technology #CT tools encourages constructive learning more e;cientlythan traditional teaching practices" 9o, would you like to upgrade your

teaching media my lecturers

5e&erences A5ahayu, " B" -e$ruariyanti, D" 201 #mplementation o& 4nline 5eading

+ssessments to ncourage 5eading #nterests" nglish.anguage TeachingE 8 11 , 1FG)20 "httpAHHd="doi"orgH10" 3FHelt"v8n11p1FG

ksi, ?" B" Besilcinar, 9" 2016 +n #nvestigation o& the *ectiveness o& 4nline Te=t)to)9peech Tools in #mproving -. Teacher Trainees(

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