Establishing Cognitive Strategies to Support Online English Language Learners’ Critical Thinking

 Shifting to online-based teaching and learning has become the most obvious way to increase pedagogy sustainability in nations with the current implementation of an online learning environment. Research has shown that online learning and teaching in English language subjects influence the cognitive strategy environment. This research aims to determine and explore the cognitive strategy implemented in the online learning environment to support the critical thinking of English language learners. This study is a quantitative descriptive study accomplished online utilising survey methodologies. The sample selection method is simple random sampling. Primary data was collected in this study by distributing questionnaires to 115 respondents via the internet. Data was gathered via the completion of questions provided to all respondents in the survey. In addition, the data were evaluated in order to be characterised and described. The data analysis findings of English language lecturers’ surveys indicate that the cognitive strategy used during the online teaching situation was prosperous and profligate. The cognitive strategies necessitated implementing the online English language learners’ critical thinking included procedural, metacognitive, conceptual, and strategic. This research establishes that the cognitive strategy implementation of online learning is commonly advantageous during remote teaching. The survey indicated that just 73% of English lecturers considered cognitive strategy online platforms as beneficial as traditional meetings for supporting critical thinking. Positive responses were obtained from the questionnaire. In addition, the statement is relevant to their experience and background in online teaching, which indicates a good attitude toward the cognitive strategy that works well in their online learning mechanism. The research suggests that online pedagogy and English lecturers’ must be developed to pave the way for a potential future authentic online strategy. The research may illustrate the difficulties associated with online education and potential areas for improvement.

Generating English Language learners’ Interaction in an Online Learning Environment

The study aims to investigate and explore the characterization interaction in the English language online learning based on the English lecturers’ perspective. The quantitative descriptive survey approach is conducted for the study. It gathered measurable or quantifiable data to conduct statistical analysis. 74 English lecturers are respondents to the structured questionnaire. It is based on a five-point Likert-type rating scale with 19 items statements created using Google forms and sent to English lecturers digitally through e-mail and electronic messages. Based on the finding, the interaction characterization involved creating teaching, cognitive, and social presence, raising English language learning engagement and pleasure, improving English learners’ learning advancement, and increasing persistence and retention of English language learners. The mean of 15 of the 19 items was more prominent than 3.0, suggesting that respondents usually agreed. The following four questions had a mean larger than 2.5, suggesting that respondents were typically apprehensive about them. Additionally, the survey indicated that just 3.84 means dividing a complicated subject into manageable components. It is considered beneficial interaction in the online environment. This research has implications for the construction of online learning environments, the role of English lecturers in online courses, and educational support to help English language learners accommodate to more active engagement patterns in online learning setting

The flipped english language learning through microsoft team application: analytical post covid-19 pandemic critical study

The increasing influence of flipped learning within these approaches has brought significant changes to transformational approaches that solve several challenges in conventional curriculum programs. The research aimed to look at how students felt about using a flipped learning paradigm in two classes teaching English as a foreign language and determine whether it was technically feasible. The Flipped Learning Experience Questionnaire results result from the Flipped Learning Experience Questionnaire were evaluated using the Wilcoxon signed ordered test. In a flipped approach, 84 participants used their Microsoft Team platform to study English as a Foreign Language class. The findings revealed that the flipped instructional material was perceived positively, especially regarding overall pleasure. The learning attitudes mean score in the flipped arrangement was significantly greater than in the traditional design, increasing throughout the study. The results suggest that participants acknowledged the ease of use of Microsoft Teams platform devices and emphasized the significance of a good video content design for successful flipped educational experiences through Microsoft Teams. Further investigation is needed since students encountered difficulties throughout the assignmen

Engagement Strategies in Electronic Tools English Online Learning: Higher Education Context

ABSTRACTThe study aimed to explore and investigate the versatility, capacity, and adaptability for accommodating online English learning. The qualitative approach was employed in the study with a descriptive research design. 86 participants responded to the survey, and 25 semi-structured interviews were adjusted from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). The study’s findings have implications for employing online instructors, instructional designers, and administrators to increase online course engagement. The study exposed four recommendations based on the finding, including instructional elements of collaborated and interactive activities, integrated electronic tests applied on mobile phones, and Enhanced Social familiarity. English lecturers preferred to use Moodle and Google classroom as their daily Learning Management System (LMS) in the study context. The interactive tools intended to apply with QuizGame and Wirewax while conference communication instrument approved to the Google Meeting and Skype. Conclusively, the study offered implications for practice by confirming and presenting the online tools approach that might be utilized to engage and implement online English learning education in Higher Education circumstances.ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi dan menyelidiki keserbagunaan, kapasitas, dan kemampuan beradaptasi untuk mengakomodasi pembelajaran daring bahasa Inggris. Pendekatan kualitatif digunakan dalam penelitian ini dengan desain penelitian deskriptif. 86 peserta menanggapi survei, dan 25 wawancara semi-terstruktur disesuaikan dari National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). Temuan penelitian ini memiliki implikasi untuk mengenlola instruktur daring, perancang instruksional pembelajaran, dan administrator untuk meningkatkan keterlibatan kelas daring. Studi ini memaparkan empat rekomendasi, termasuk elemen instruksional dari aktivitas kolaborasi dan interaktif, tes elektronik terintegrasi yang diterapkan pada ponsel, dan Peningkatan kedekatan Sosial. Instruktur atau dosen bahasa Inggris lebih menggunakan Moodle dan Google classroom sebagai Learning Management System (LMS) harian mereka dalam konteks belajar daring. Keterlibatan alat interaktif dimaksudkan untuk penerapan dengan QuizGame dan Wirewax sementara instrumen komunikasi konferensi digunakan dalam Google Meeting dan Skype. Secara meyakinkan, penelitian ini menawarkan implikasi untuk praktik dengan mengonfirmasi dan menyajikan pendekatan alat daring sehingga dapat digunakan untuk melibatkan dan mengimplementasikan pendidikan pembelajaran bahasa Inggris daring di lingkungan Pendidikan Tinggi

Student Centre Approach in Teaching English for Specific Purposes Moodle-Based

The Indonesia higher education majority utilized the Language Management System (LMS) Moodle. The English Moodle-based teaching is a massive pedagogy shift due to pandemic. The study aimed to investigate and explore the technicality feature of teaching English, particularly the student-centered approach. The study was conducted in the qualitative approach experimental sequential research design. The substantive research instruments applied in the study comprised centered on questionnaires and interviews. The questionnaire was generated to investigate the lecturer used Moodle in their English language teaching. It is expected to discover the utilizing feature and adapting virtual class in LMS Moodle. The findings revealed that the system had an exclusive feature to accommodate student-centered teaching, yet it was found that the lecturer's unfamiliarity implied the inadequacy of Moodle course featur

Effectiveness of Teaching English for Specific Purposes in LMS Moodle: Lecturers' Perspective

Learning management systems (LMS) Moodle presents a beneficial arrangement of features that support language learning in the electronic environment. The English lecturers' challenge is to obtain interaction and adaptability with their online classroom. The study is to find the effectiveness of teaching English in Moodle-based.  The semi-structured interviews and open-ended questioner were employed to recognize the complete information to the English lecturer's teaching experiences based on Moodle. This study determines that the effective teaching of English Moodle-based depends on both lecturer competences in pedagogy English and lecturer experience in the Moodle system. It covers a complete curriculum with high expectations, composes applicable model content, and constructs it more obtainable, provides specific and culturally applicable instruction, maintains practical approaches to explicit learning strategies, allows learnings to use the first language, prepares vocabulary in various contexts, and develops reading comprehension, and integrates communicative competence abilities. The language learning activities of the Moodle classroom are capable of fulfilling learning practice for complete progression participants with peculiar configuration, management, adjustments, and teaching approach. The English teaching course designer should organize and manage an expected course model of course-related activity, and it applied to the utilization of the syllabus or course information page. The essential aspect of interchangeable communication significantly reshapes language teaching pedagogy in the electronic ecosystem. The effective teaching of English Moodle-based can be achieved with teaching pedagogy's full capabilities and technicality in the Moodle system

The Design of Moodle-Based English Language Learning Environments (Case Study of Indonesian Higher Education)

Integrating English learning content enhance complexity and unconventional demands challenge lecturers in Higher Education. The study investigates and determines an English learning course design through Moodle, the most suitable approach that develops an online environment’s essential language learners’ accomplishment outcomes. The study was conducted with the qualitative approach with a case study research design. The thirty-eight lecturers generate as respondents from Higher Education in the Jakarta area. The result has found that Moodle could implement the demands-complexity of English language learning in the electronic ecosystem. The English course should have obtained attention or engagement with familiarize, encourage, fulfill, evaluate, and understand actual content material integrated Moodle feature.  The Moodle-based designer must develop topological technologies to request the particular necessities of learners needs. Moodle is not fundamentally constructed as a mechanism concerning language learning, and it should have been noticed that the electronic model was not a flawless online learning system for the English educational process. Nonetheless, it presents various resources and excellent learning designs. It frequently engaged learners’ and lecturers’ adverse responses to the acquiring of English as a foreign language. Technical problems and educational challenges should not be neglected while utilizing Moodle program in the electronic ecosyste

INVESTIGATING SITUATED LEARNING PRACTICE FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION (ONLINE-BASED ENVIRONMENT)

In online-based contextual English language learning, learning must occur in its context, allowing English learners to seek and discover logical explanations for their knowledge via interaction with their non-physical and social distance environments. The purpose of the study is to explain and establish online-based situated learning in the English pedagogical context. The ethnography case study design employed the analysis with a collective case study type approach. The result exposed that situated learning affirmed to be implemented in online English learning contextual. Communities of practice implied a set of individuals with diverse interests and attitudes with similar purposes, and Skype, Zoom, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams were implied to be adaptable on this model. Authentic learning stresses actual activities that apply to real-world circumstances, and the model incorporated the Grammarly, Draftin, Scholastic Story Starters, Book Creator, and ReadWorks. The online language learning systematic model is designated to assess the quantity of material presented successfully in the course using online realistically, and it has Moodle, Google Classroom, Ispring Learn, and Microsoft Team. The last model finding is Task-Based Language Learning. Duolingo, Fabulingua, FluentU, and English Tools were the integrated online tools in the English pedagogical situated learning. Integrated and genuine situated learning of English language learning, online environments must allow English language learners to be competent performers with acquired information and collaborate on the essential communicative and technology literacy ability

The Usage of Online Assessment Moodle LMS and Google Classroom Environment for English Language Teaching

Moodle and Google Classroom learning management systems (LMSs) generally operate in higher education and are accommodating when shifting from traditional face-to-face instruction to online courses. The study aims to examine and analyze online assessment or testing in Moodle and Google Classroom for English language learning. The study concentrated on the mixed method and the convergent parallel design. This research reveals methods to construct, adapt, and evaluate online assessments or testing in Moodle or Google Classroom. Moodle scores higher than Google Classroom in the Automated evaluation and Submission for Items evaluation aspect. On the other hand, Discussions on the Platforms and Share and Publication have a better experience with Google Classroom educators. English language lecturers or instructors exposed that Moodle comprehended Item Mean scores of 2.43, 2.42, and 2.41. it exposed those quizzes are the most common automated evaluation. Interactive multimedia applications may also be practical for online learning and assessment. However, the mean scores of 2.09, 2.16, and 2.18 revealed that comes to online learning, Moodle instructors who consider it an inadequate Google Classroom are out of touch with reality. Moodle and Google classroom scored low for the teacher aspect as implementation differences, and the finding elaborates on the opportunities and challenges of online assessment and testing. The participants noticed increased English language learners’ accomplishments and improved English lecturers’ online technical abilities. These results support the transition toward the future introduction of more online English language online course

Exploring English language instruction through synchronous virtual meetings in Indonesian EFL context: Pedagogical approaches, opportunities and challenges, and multimedia integration

Despite the increasing adoption of synchronous virtual meetings (SVMs), a notable gap exists in understanding the specific pedagogical approaches favored by educators in Indonesia and the efficacy of student engagement strategies within this context. The study analyzed the strategies used in virtual English language learning meetings in Indonesia, including pedagogical approaches, multimedia integration, and challenges faced. Surveys and interviews were conducted with educators from various institutions in Indonesia using a mixed-method approach with an explanatory sequential design. Findings revealed a diverse range of strategies employed, with direct instruction being the most common approach, followed by flipped classrooms and communicative language teaching. The integration of multimedia resources positively influenced the effectiveness of SVMs, enhancing student engagement and learning outcomes. However, educators faced significant technical issues, student engagement, and assessment complexities. Despite these challenges, SVMs offered opportunities for flexibility, professional development, and global collaboration, enriching the English language learning experience in the Indonesian context. This study highlights the importance of tailored professional development for educators and policymakers to improve their technological integration and pedagogical adaptability