Students’ Perception on Flipped Learning Conducted in an Online Writing Class During the Pandemic: A Survey Research

Flipped learning (FL) is the approach used in this research based on two reasons: firstly, the traditional learning fails to facilitate students’ need for knowledge construction, collaboration, and sufficient practice and feedback in online learning; therefore, the teacher had to use another approach called Flipped Learning. Secondly, Flipped Learning has the potency to facilitate the students’ needs mentioned earlier. This research is a survey research and was conducted in an online Writing Class at the university of Palangka Raya and a questionnaire and interview were the instruments used to collect the data needed. The result shows that the success in implementing the FL could be achieved when the four pillars of FL integrated appropriately in the teaching and learning process.  As the result, the students gave highly positive responses towards FL that it can facilitate their needs in the online writing class during the pandemic as the four pillars are accordingly implemented; therefore, the pre-learning activities, practices, small group discussions and feedbacks are adequately provided through FL

SWOT ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH COURSE IMPLEMENTATION BY THE BORNEO ENGLISH COURSE (BEC)

Most parents get overwhelmed in guiding their children's learning progress at home because not all come from educational backgrounds. Some parents are also busy at work and don't have enough time to teach their children intensively, so their children's education during this pandemic is not going as well as it should. This study is aim to investigate and to dig deeper into each of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges faced to improve and develop learning strategies with SWOT analysis. This study was a qualitative content analysis approach. Content analysis is a qualitative research technique that emphasize the constancy of communication content, the meaning of communication content, the reading of symbols and the meaning of symbolic interactions that occur in communication (Bungin, 2011). The information collected was then analyzed and described in prose. The steps taken were: data collection, SWOT analysis (determining strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats), and finding development or improvement strategies. The result showed by changing the recruitment process through the placement test process, adding program variations, and most importantly, creating teaching materials developed by themselves so that the curriculum in the course can run clearly and systematically and the seriousness of the institution in preparing the learning process can be felt by consumers