Prospects and Challenges in Accessing Education 4.0 English Classes

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200827.012How to use a DOI?

Keywords

online materials, access, suitability Education 4.0

Abstract

This paper discusses the prospects and challenges in accessing learning in Education 4.0 era in English classes. The study is qualitative as it uses descriptive survey which wasused to discover and describe the prospects and the challenges faced by English teachers and students in accessing learning in Education 4.0 era in the English classes of junior high schools. The data were collected by observing online materials on the internet in order to assess its relevance with instructional purposes. Other data were collected by using observe English teachers and students in actual classes. Interviews were also conducted to the teachers and two students from each class of the 1st grade, the 2nd grade and the 3th grade. The data were analyzed by using the following procedure: content analysis and assessment of the online materials by reading and re-reading the data, coding the data, generating initial funding based on themes, reviewing the themes, and defining and re-defining the themes. The study found that internet materials offer promising prospects to English teachers and students to fulfil requirements of Education 4.0 English classes but challenges appeared from limited bandwidth, computer apparatus, time, and learning time compared to great number of students. Lack of access to authentic material resources, lack of internet access for students, and misappropriation of online media with student worlds appear to be the major obstacles.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - N. Khafiia
AU  - Arifuddin Arifuddin
AU  - Kamaludin Yusra
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/28
TI  - Prospects and Challenges in Accessing Education 4.0 English Classes
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Education and Social Sciences (ACCESS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 44
EP  - 47
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200827.012
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200827.012
ID  - Khafiia2020
ER  -