Abstract
Blended learning is a combination of traditional teaching method and the use of technology to provide a more organized learning approach in which it gives students extra control over the time, situation and ways of learning. This study investigates the effects of blended learning on motivating secondary level of students to learn English language. A pilot study was conducted. The sample consists of sixty secondary levels of students in a particular school in Shah Alam district, Selangor, Malaysia. The pre and posttest were used to test students’ achievement and the survey adapted from Gardner’s Attitude/Motivation Test Battery was implied to determine students’ motivation level before and after the use of blended learning. The analysis through paired-sample t-test revealed that, there was improvement on the level of motivation of the students and there were significant differences on student’s achievement whereas they performed better after the use of blended learning. The use of blended learning has a positive impact in individual professional development and instead of measuring the effect of blended learning towards student’s achievement; attitude or motivation to learn a language, further studies should also measure the other impact of blended learning itself especially in education.
Highlights
1 Enhancing student learning experiences and motivations through blended learning have a great impact in improving student’s motivation and achievement to learn
Numerous studies found in the country regarding the effectiveness of blended learning in motivating students to learn English language, but it there were lack of studies focused on applying blended learning towards demotivated secondary level of students to learn a language because the language only taught efficiently during the secondary, not at the primary and due to that, many students especially the school-leavers had a low motivational level to use English language effectively (Ganapathy & Ying, 2016)
As many researches discussed and presented positive results of blended learning towards students’ attitude, academic achievement and motivation, the use of blended learning should always closely follow the modernized development in technology especially in education
Summary
1 Enhancing student learning experiences and motivations through blended learning have a great impact in improving student’s motivation and achievement to learn. Students need to understand and acquire the four main skills in learning a language; listening, speaking, reading and writing and the use of blended learning can be useful to motivate students to learn English effectively (Frafika et al, 2018). There are many innovative learning management systems provided and invented to create successful and motivated students to learn a language such as virtual-conferencing software like Google Meet and Zoom, online classroom platform like Google Classroom and many more that can benefit the organization and the students. This study is needed in order to fill the gap and to find out the effects of blended learning in motivating secondary level of students to learn English language
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