Promoting Online Reading Habit Among Undergraduate Students by Reviewing and Summarizing E-Journal to Complete Academic Tasks

Abstract

Today, reading online activity is not only a trend but also an essential need among students at the university. Because online reading habit contributes significantly to the EFL learners successful in academic performance. This article reports what outcomes are resulted from reviewing and summarizing Ejournal to complete academic tasks that promote online reading habit among undergraduate students at English Language Education Program of Teacher Training and Education Faculty, University of Palangka Raya. A questionnaire was used for data collection from 200 respondents, and descriptive statistics were used for data analysis. Findings showed that: most (97.5%) of the students reviewed E-journals as main references to write summaries, essays as final project-reports, thesis proposal, and research report; 2) all students (100%) claimed that the written products they produced were in the form of summaries, essays as final project-reports, research proposal, and research report, 3) the E-journals they read and referred most were: TEFLIN Journal, RELC (Singapore), The Asian EFL Journal and The Journal of Asia TEFL, and 4) all students (100%) stated that reviewed and summarized E-journal were very useful and meaningful to search ELT instruction and or research which are used to complete their academic tasks. So that the availability of accessible E-Library across universities all over Indonesia is urgent to provide in order promoting online reading habit and developing quantity and quality of research among faculty members.

Developing e-Book of Reading for Intensive Course in Virtual Classroom: Students’ Need Analysis

“…These are in line with ideas of the importance of using technology in education, particularly to teach English as foreign language (Ivone, et.al.2020 andKlimonanv, et.al. 2020), and specifically at which it direct to develop and to promote EFL students' reading online habit (Karani, 2017).…”

“…In current modern learning era, several scholars introduced and reviewed the use of technology and its application for language teaching and learning (Yang, 2013;Karani, 2017;(Klimova & Zamborova, 2020;Agustini, Wardhani, Kurniawan & Amalina, 2018;Hazaea & Alzubi, 2016) of English, specifically reading comprehension ability as literacy comprehension (Reid, 2016). Without the ability to read well, opportunities for personal fulfilment and job success inevitably will be lost (ChanLin, 2011;Karani, 2017). Using e-books of reading, students can practice reading comprehension autonomously, and develop online reading habit as well.…”