UTILIZATION OF BLOG IN LEARNING ENGLISH FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Sylvia Irene Persulessy, Juvrianto Chrissunday Jakob

Abstract


The use of blog as a medium in activities learning will give new nuances between lecturers and students. Problems in this study is whether the use of blogs as a medium of presentation material can improve learning outcomes and student activity in English for Civil Engineering subject. Utilization of blogs as learning media has not been done optimally. This is because many lecturers do not understand how and what steps must be taken in utilizing blogs as media learning. This study applied literature review in obtaining data. This study was carried out at the Department of Civil Engineering, Ambon State Polytechnic from August to November 2022. In this paper, the steps for using blogs as a learning medium in lecture activities are described. This study begins with studying various literature and the results of similar studies to get an overview regarding the use of blogs as learning media. After this study was carried out, information was obtained that various problems in the civil engineering department related to learning media could be overcome by using blogs as learning media. In the future, it is hoped that lecturers can utilize blogs as learning media so that they can attract more students' interest and attention.

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online learning; media; blog; lecturing; students

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