Enhancing EFL Students’ Soft and Hard Skills through Blended Learning Activities

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201215.043How to use a DOI?

Keywords

21st century skills, online learning, English teaching, learning and instruction

Abstract

Many researches had proved that Blended learning is able to improve students’ academic performance. Varies teaching and learning methods are included in blended learning for instance, online group discussion, online presentation, online submission, etc. Many resources reveal that learning methods and strategies that embed with blended learning allow students to practice soft skills and hard skills during learning activities. This study aims to seek on the effect of blended learning activities to enhance students’ soft skills and hard skills through learning and instruction of research methodology subject. Quasi experimental design is applied in the study. Two groups of students are divided as control class (conventional learning) and experiment class (blended learning). Each of the class consists of 25 students. Students’ self and pair assessment is used to measure students’ soft skills and hard skills performance at pre- and post-treatment. The result of students’ self and pair evaluation revealed that blended learning approach has significant impact on improving their soft skills and hard skill. Students in experiment class perform better in aspect of communication, IT, numeracy, and learning, problem solving and working with other skills than students in control class. Students in experiment class also obtain both specific knowledge and skills of research methodology higher than students in control class. It is suggested that teacher should be more creative and innovative.

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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  - Hadiyanto
AU  - Rd. M. Ali
AU  - Mariza Juwita
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/17
TI  - Enhancing EFL Students’ Soft and Hard Skills through Blended Learning Activities
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 278
EP  - 283
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.043
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.043
ID  - 2020
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