Writing is often considered as a dull but challenging skill to be learned. Hence, a learning innovation aside the conventional methods is needed to improve students’ participation and achievement. Flipped Classroom, a reverse teaching strategy was selected to overcome this problem because it involves the use of technology as a learning media that fits the characteristics of millennial students. This strategy was combined with Edpuzzle, a learning media which provides content from renowned education channels that can be customized and used freely by teachers. The combination of Flipped Classroom strategy and Edpuzzle has proven to be successful in improving students’ participation in learning activities (30.5%) as well as their achievement in writing (17%). Therefore, teachers are suggested to implement and adapt this practice in their class while considering the competence to be mastered, as well as students’ needs and characteristics.
This research aims at developing the Intensive Reading material for the second-semester English Language Education Program students. It is a Research and Development study that was done by using Reeves’ (2000) Design-Based Research model. Tomlinson’s (1998) definition of learning material is also used as one of the considerations in developing the material since the material needed by the students should contribute to the students’ needs. The needs analysis showed that the intensive reading skills are still considered difficult for some students. Additionally, the content of the product is based on the syllabus and the Outcome Based Education (OBE) curriculum. The researchers develop 11 units of Intensive Reading material based on the previous needs analysis data. It covers the descriptive, narrative, recount, and procedure text materials, as those types of text are supposed to be taught in the Intensive Reading class. Moreover, materials related to the intensive reading skills such as scanning, skimming, previewing, predicting, building a powerful vocabulary, context clues, and understanding topic, main idea, and paragraph are also included in the final product. The Intensive Reading materials were validated by two experts and will be tried out to the second-semester students and three English lecturers in the English Language Education Program of Universitas Brawijaya Malang.
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