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Journal : Teaching English and Language Learning English Journal

Students’ Extensive Reading Through Digital Media in Learning English: Problem Based Learning (PBL) (A Critical Review) Fetriani; Eki Saputra
Teaching English and Language Learning English Journal Vol. 4 No. 3 (2024): December
Publisher : Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36085/telle.v4i3.7713

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Extensive reading has been continuously studied as a promising instructional method for improving students’ language proficiency, including reading proficiency, vocabulary acquisition, and grammar awareness. However, this practice still presents many challenges due to several factors. hence, this paper aims to critically review students’ extensive reading through problem-based learning with digital media in learning English. The present study is a meta–analysis by focusing on the Students’ Extensive Reading used digital media in learning English: problem-based learning. This study used 15 articles related to students’ extensive reading, digital media and problem-based learning (PBL). It was revealed that the implementation of digital extensive reading through those various digital or online platforms has been proven to be useful in supporting the success of EFL students’ digital extensive reading activities as well as the success of EFL students’ language learning. By using PBL showed that there are differences in the subjects’ advanced reading proficiency level as well as an increase in empathy soft skill before and after the implementation of the learning method. The integration of digital media and problem-based learning in extensive reading ushers in a new and significant era of English education. It makes the students to develop as independent learners who can successfully negotiate the complexity of the global language in improving their language proficiency. Keywords: Problem-Based Learning, Extensive Reading, Digital Media
ENGLISH TEACHERS’ STRATEGIES TO TRAIN STUDENTS’ CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS Persada Zuhri, Fuji; Eki Saputra; Kiagus Baluqiah; Ririn Putri Ananda
Teaching English and Language Learning English Journal Vol. 5 No. 1 (2025): Maret
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36085/telle.v5i1.7869

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The objectives of this study are to investigate the strategies used by English teachers to train students' critical thinking skills and to investigate the most dominant strategy used by English teachers to train students' critical thinking skills at SMAN 1 Bengkulu Utara. The design of this research was a descriptive qualitative research. The population of this research were three English teachers who teach English at SMAN 1 Bengkulu Utara. The English teachers were qualified as professional teachers who have been taught English for more than five years. All of the population above became the sample of this research. In order to collect the data for this study, the researcher employed observation checklist and interview as the instruments of this research. The instruments of this research were designed by theory of Bean (2011) who divided nine strategies in critical thinking, namely; the problem-posing strategy, the frame strategy, the question-generating strategy, the believing and doubting strategy, the evidence-finding strategy, the case strategy, the norming session strategy, the “rough draft workshop” strategy, and the metacognitive strategy. This research found that the teachers implemented six strategies. All of the teachers implemented The Problem-Posing Startegy, the Question-Generating Strategy, The Believing And Doubting Strategy, and The Evidence-Finding Strategy. Thirty three percent of the norming session strategy and the metacognive strategy. There was no teacher who implemented the frame strategy, the case strategy, and the “Rough Draft Workshop” strategy. Moreover, the dominant startegies implemented by the teachers to train students’ critical thinking were the Problem-Posing Startegy, the Question-Generating Strategy, the Believing And Doubting Strategy, and the Evidence-Finding Strategy. Keywords: English Teacher, Strategies, Critical Thinking Skilss