ENGLISH TEACHER PARTICIPANTS� ENGAGEMENT IN ONLINE LEARNING SESSION OF TEACHING PROFESSION CERTIFICATION PROGRAM

Pius N Prihatin

doi:10.24071/ijiet.v2i2.1208

Abstract

This research analyzes the engagement of English teachers who participated in the preparation of Teaching Profession Certification Program (TPCP/PLPG) in Sanata Dharma University. There were 70 English teachers from many schools in the Province of Central Java who participated in the online learning session before they follow the workshop session. The result of this analysis indicated that the level of active participation of the participants in the online learning session is very low. Although the mean score of the frequency of access (= 42.39) is above the expected frequency of access (24), the mean score of frequency of message (= 9.32) is far below the expected frequency of message (72). In addition, there are no significant differences between the engagement of male and female participants in both the frequency of access and the frequency of messages. Furthermore, the frequency of access indicates a weak correlation with the scores of final examination (r = 0.21, p .05), but the correlation between the frequency of access and the final examination scores does not significantly exist (r = 0.02, p .05). It is recommended that future attempts to carry out the online activities in professional development programs for English teachers should be focused on encouraging instructors and participants to be more engaged in the online learning environment.DOI: https://doi.org/10.24071/ijiet.2018.020201

Highlights

Participant engagement is an essential component of an online learning environment
The data was taken from the database containing the record of the English teachers who were enrolled in the online learning preparation program as part of the in-service teachers’ certification training and education in Sanata Dharma University
There were 30 male and 40 female English teachers who participated in the online learning session prior to the workshop session as part of the in-service teachers’ certification training and education in Sanata Dharma University

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Introduction

Participant engagement is an essential component of an online learning environment. 1) mentions that “By highlighting youths’ characteristics that tend to be visual and addicted to rapid information, memes and Instagram may be used as one of the strategies to develop an innovative teaching and learning process.”. Learners’ engagement has become an important issue in designing and establishing online learning activities. It is in line with Wulandari (2017) who suggests that flipped classroom in digital environment Learners’ engagement has become an important issue in designing and establishing online learning activities. Purnama (2017, p. 1) mentions that “By highlighting youths’ characteristics that tend to be visual and addicted to rapid information, memes and Instagram may be used as one of the strategies to develop an innovative teaching and learning process.” It is in line with Wulandari (2017) who suggests that flipped classroom in digital environment

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