a. Posting lectures online
b. Using a discussion board c.
Using online testing tools d. Providing online counseling, advice, mentoring, and support
e. Assessing group project
f. Using web as the presentation medium
g. Web-based exercise h. Online team teaching
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5. Quipper School as a Online Learning Platform for Blended Learning
Quipper School is a FREE online platform for teachers and students.
Quipper School consists of two parts: LINK for teachers, and LEARN for
students
.
a. Quipper School Link is where teachers menage their classes online and check student’s progress. Here are something teachers can do using quipper school
link. To send assignments and practice examination.
To create educational content, view student progress and download analytic. To facilitating collaboration with some teacher in the school.
b. Quipper School Learn is where students study, it consits of some fetures such as follows.
Students is facilitated with assigment and general study. Students can message the teacher if there is some topics that need teacher
assitance. Students can learn fun and enjoy because it is facilitated by gamification
feature.
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Quipper, “What is Quipper School”, https:help.quipper.comenarticle_groupsaccess-
codesarticleswhat-is-quipper-school , October 13, 2016.
D. Previous Study
Regarding the effect of blended learning on students reading comprehension of exposition text, there are two researchers that have conducted
the study: The first study was conducted by Asih Wahyuni, et al. The focus of their
study was to find whether blended learning may gave alternative way instruction in teaching reading and it could improve student’s score, attitude and motivation
in reading. The participants of their study were second years EFL learners who studied at Faculty of Teachers Training and Educational Sciences in Bogor. To
collect the data, they used three instruments which were classroom observation, documentation of student’s gained score and student result in online learning
activity, the last was interview. Through their study, they proved that blended learning could
improve student’s score and it could be interactive way in teaching reading in Indonesian University Context.
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The second study was by Fatemeh Behjat, et al. This study was an attempt to discover whether conventional or blended learning could better enhance the
reading comprehension for EFL learners. 107 Iranian students majoring in English at Abaden Islamic Azad University and Zand institute of Higher Education in
Shiraz were selected as sample. They used test as their instruments and divided sample into two groups of experiment and control. For the treatment the
experimental group received the instruction in classroom and assignment in virtual mode. The control group got instruction and assignment in conventional
mode. The result proved that blended learning could help learners outperform in their reading comprehension. Moreover, they suggest that this model of learning
could be used in developing other skills.
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Asih Wahyuni et al, Blended Learning is Teaching Reading: a Pedagogical Practice to Teaching English as a Foreign Language in an Indonesian University Context, The 61 TEFLIN
International Conference, 2014
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Fatemeh Behjat et al, Blended Learning: a Ubiquitous Learning Environment for Reading Comprehension, International Journals of English Linguistic, 2012, Vol. 2, No. 1
