Midwifery Students’ Perceptions towards the Implementation of Extensive Reading as Supplementary English Teaching Material
Keywords:
Extensive Reading, Students’ perception, SupplementaryAbstract
Politeknik ‘Aisyiyah Pontianak always organized activities for students to encourage them to improve their language skills. One of the things that have been carried out to assist the students in their studies to enhance their English abilities was extensive reading. Extensive reading is interesting for students to challenge them in reading. The extensive reading program had switched to an online-based extensive reading program. This study used qualitative since it seeks to learn how students perform online-based extensive reading and intended to know the students’ perception toward the implementation of extensive reading and its usefulness in assisting students in improving their English skills. 68 students of Midwifery students participated in the study. The information was gathered using a questionnaire and an interview. The questionnaire was distributed to the students followed by the interview and aimed to get some complete explanation. The findings revealed that intensive reading programs were implemented at home, using quizziz.com and that students gave good feedback on the platform, as well as improvements in several aspects of English ability. There are suggestions for additional classroom activities that would be best carried out as a continuation of what the students did at home, as well as the supervisor's routine monitoring.References
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