Varieties and Accessibilities of Online Materials for Oral and Written English Skills

Abstract

In this digital era, the use of internet has become more popular to teachers and students. This paper aims at identifying varieties of and accessibilities to online materials for oral and written English skills. This study uses qualitative method. In collecting the data, the downloaded materials are taken from the internet sources. Then, the data were analyzed by the following procedures: collecting, classifying, identifying, and describing the nature and methods of access to the materials, assessing the suitability of the varieties and accesses to the materials from instruction and student points of views, and evaluating to what extent the online materials are relevant with oral and written skills legislated in English curriculum. The study found that, while there are varieties materials, they are not suitable with the actual classroom needs. While the materials are technologically accessible, they are actually accessible from linguistic point of view: the majority of materials are authentic and they are not made for instructional purposes. Consequently, they are less accessible to students. While more materials suitable for writing skill, materials for oral skills require more work for students to collect the relevant sources. The study also exemplified online resources for oral and written skills of English.

Students’ Perception of Learning English Through Hybrid Learning (Online and Offline)

“…Hediansah and Surjono (2019) stated that technological development has a big influence on the information exchange process, including in the education sector. In this digital era, the use of internet has become more popular to teachers and students (Hidayat et al, 2020).…”