Elements Affecting Reading Comprehension

Drinking Cofee has Health Benefits Drinking coffee may not harm people, Tea, coffee and soda are few bevarages which contain drug called caffeine. In its natural state ,caffeine, a silky crystalline substance, is a white or yellow powder, which is bitter tasting and adorless.why should I say that? I propose some arguments as fellows: First, we drink cofee to make us stay awake, because coffee consist of cafeine. Second, drinking coffee is good for your helath, because it can expidate our urination. Third, some therapeitic uses caffeine to help anagesics work more effeciently, to relieve depression to drug addcits and to kill skin figures Thus if we want to say that first, we may drink coffee, without feeling scare of bad impact of the caffeine; second, do not drink too much; third, drink cofee for therapeutic purposes, at leat we need not to addict to coffee. 20

3. Grammatical Features of Exposition Text

Exposition usually includes the following grammatical features as follows. a. Words that express the author’s attitude modality, for example, will, may, must, always, rarely. b. Emotive noun and verbs c. Adverbs that show a time sequence and link the arguments. 21

C. Blended Learning

1. General Concept of Blended Learning

A lot of scholars share similar definitions of blended learning. Here the writer discusses three similar definitions defined by three scholars. The first one is 20 Herman Benyamin, Advanced Learning English 2, Bandung: Grafindo Media Pratama, 2012 p.212-213 21 Mark Anderson Kate Anderson, op cit., p. 22 Thesis Arguments Recomendation defined by Sherma. According to Sherma, blended learning is a process of integrated combination of traditional learning face-to-face with web based online approach online teaching. 22 Alya also defines blended learning as the purposeful integration of traditional model face-to-face and online learning. 23 Then the last, Li Zhingan, et al.define blended learning as the combination of traditional classroom-based approach and e-learning for delivering instruction. 24 Based on the definitions stated previously, the writer sees blended learning as a model of teaching and learning activity which combines face-to-face and online learning. The term of blended learning is used to describe any course that incorporates the web into the curriculum, Ko and Rossen defined blended as falling into three subcategories:

a. Web enhanced, these are courses with associated web sites that contain

material relevant to the course the syllabus, a list of web based resources, a course calendar, a reading list, lecture notes, or an electronic bulletin board where student can post question of a general nature. Instructor often uses web- enhanced resources to reduce the flow of paperwork and to offer their students an optional method of obtaining course related information.

b. Media enhanced, courses where relevant course material such as videotape

lectures or associated graphics are posted to a website for use by students as a form of review. Often such sites recreate the activities in a classroom, such as the lecture and ensuing discussion. Media-enhanced courses are often to use to support web-augmented classes.

c. Web augmented, any course in which a portion of class work is done

exclusively on the web, augmenting, and often replacing, work that normally be done in traditional classroom. Generally, such work is both posted and completed using course management system. It can consist of a number of 22 Pete Sharma, Key Concept in ELT „Blended Learning’, ELT Journal, 2011, Vol. 644, p. 456 23 Jesica S. Alya, Blended Learning as New Approach to Social Work Education, Journal of Social Work Education, 2009, Vol. 45, No. 2, p. 277 24 Zhingang Li et al , Switching to Blended Learning: The Impact on Students’ Academic Performance, Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 2014, Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 246

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