leaner autonomy and collaborative learning are the significant elements that should be developed in e-learning.
With the use of web-based learning, students will be autonomous or independent with their own learning and they will be collaborative with other
students. First, web-based learning provides them with the ready materials for the whole semester that can be accessed every time. These materials cover the whole
units with different sources. Therefore, students can improve and develop their learning progress by accessing the ready-materials autonomously or
independently whenever they need them. Second, online chat, forum, and discussions are provided for the students so that they will make use of these
applications to conduct collaborative learning Jones Youngs in Hubbard Levy 2006. Sharing information via e-mail or messaging in asynchronous
communication and chat in synchronous communication will enhance the solid collaboration Hanson-Smith in Hubbard Levy 2006. They may discuss the
materials using these applications at any time
3. Web-Based Learning for Teaching Writing
Technology is seen to be a powerful means to enhance students‟ interest in learning process Ellis 2000, Krause 2006. With the facilities that are provided in
the web-based learning, students can explore their creativity and they will be able to do autonomous and collaborative learning. Warschauer 2007 also supports
that e-mail, bulletin boards, chat, discussion forum that are available in web-based learning enable the students to be more active in the learning process. Teaching
writing using web-based learning is more beneficial than in traditional learning. As students are able to see other students‟ works on the page of the web-based
learn ing, they will be motivated by their peer‟s works. Thus, it will lead them to
write more. Web-based learning also enables the students to provide comments and
feedback for their peers‟ works. Therefore, students are eager to revise their work more. It is seen that students make more revision if their works are commented by
their peers Schultz 2000. Hegelheimer and Fisher 2006 assert that students often feel unable to find grammatical mistakes in their own work. However, they
find it easier if they ide ntify the grammatical mistakes on their peer‟s works. It
shows that peer feedback is effective as a way in improving students‟ motivation for evaluating and revising their works.
Besides its helpful facilities that can motivate students to learn more, web- based learning is also beneficial in its unlimited resources. Students can make use
of internet resources as media in facilitating them whenever they met troublesome in grammatical features. Whenever they feel stuck and hard to understand the
material they learn, they will be able to automatically access the internet and browse for information they might need to add.
4. Web-based grammar practice in Sentence Writing Class
ELTGallery
is the website used in sentence writing class. The website is used to facilitate the students to maximize their independent learning. It enables
the students to improve their grammatical skills as they practice to do the grammar practices. It is hoped tha
t by developing students‟ grammatical skills, students will automatically develop their writing skills.
a Sentence Writing Syllabus
Writing at university level is considered as advanced level in which the focus of the writing is more on the managing and organizing ideas and sentences
into well-formed passages. As a result, the grammatical and lexical accuracy are slightly neglected Mennim 2003, Ferris 2002, Chuang 2005. Therefore, the
grammar accuracy should be considered in teaching second language writing, especially in sentence writing.
The purpose of sentence writing is that the students will be able to write grammatically correct sentences. Grammatically, a sentence should consist of at
least a subject and a verb. A sentence is composed by a group of words that are combined grammatically, while the combination of one sentence and another
sentence can create compound and complex sentences Birjandi
et al.
2004. In writing these three types of sentences, students need to develop their micro and
macro skills, in which most of them are about grammar.
ELTGallery
provides the syllabus of the course. The syllabus describes the goal and the objectives of the course, the class progress and activities, and the
evaluation of the course. In the evaluation part, students are also given the explanation about the scoring of their tasks. The evaluation is not only conducted
by the teachers, but also by their peers. This syllabus is used as the guideline for the students so that they will be able to monitor their progress see Appendix 1.
WRITING I 1. Credit : 1
2. Description : This course aims to help the students develop their ability to
