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The previous instruction in the designed material was not really clear in giving the direction to the students. The revision should include the clear instruction for each
section and which one that is flexible for them to select. The material was designed to be supporting material for the students in
learning reading especially for the seventh grade students. The material will be given in the class only during the English subject hours with consideration that
not all students might have a set of computer or laptop at home to do the reading material. If the reading material were given as homework, it was afraid that those
who do not have computer at home would not be able to work on it. While at school, the students could access it in computer laboratory during the English
subject hours scheduled by the teacher. By doing so, each student has equal chance to learn and get the benefit from the computer based reading material and
it is hoped could support and increase the students’ reading mastery.
In administering the reading class using computer based reading material, the teacher acted as facilitator who just explained what the students should do
with the reading material. The teacher needed to give detail yet concise description of the learning material so the students could get the whole picture of
the material they were going to work on. The autonomous learning process started when the students work on the learning material by themselves, maximizing the
function of the instructions and minimizing to involve the teacher’s help in their learning process. One of the indicators that the autonomous initiation process
worked in successful way was the scores gained by the students for the exercises section. If they could gain good scores, it could be concluded that they understand
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what they have to do for each section so they will not get lost themselves when doing the exercises.
For a long term goal, it is hoped that the learning material could be used as self-study material at home. When all students are equipped with computer or
laptop at home, it would be an ease to make this long term goal happen. By doing so, autonomous learning would be promoted into higher level that is believed
could be one of the supporting ways to help students improving their English especially their reading mastery.