DINAMIKA ILMU - Vol. 19 No. 1 - Students‘ Perspective on Innovative Teaching Model Using Edmodo in Teaching English Phonology

Oct 15, 2026

This paper examines students’ perspectives on an innovative online teaching model using Edmodo for English phonology, developed as a virtual class learning approach. Data were collected over six months, from proposal compilation in March 2018 through August 2018, during research activities at IAIN Tulungagung. Participants included 46 fourth-semester English majors who completed pre-observation and post questionnaires, and 46 interviewees (thirty-one women, sixteen men). Descriptive qualitative analysis shows Edmodo use affects readiness, learning fluency, and perceived advantages and disadvantages.

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Introduction

Background and rationale for innovative teaching

Technology-supported communicative competence and phonology learning

DINAMIKA ILMU Vol. 19 No. 1, 2019 P-ISSN: 1411-3031; E-ISSN: 2442-9651 doi: [http://doi.org/10.21093/di.v19i1.1379](http://doi.org/10.21093/di.v19i1.1379) Students‘ Perspective on Innovative Teaching Model Using Edmodo in Teaching English Phonology: A Virtual Class Development Dwi Astuti Wahyu Nurhayati State Islamic Institute of Tulungagung, Indonesia e-mail: [dwiastuti507@gmail.com](dwiastuti507@gmail.com) Abstract This paper displayed the students‟ perspective on innovative teaching model using edmodo in teaching English Phonology as a virtual class development. The data were collected for 6 months starting from compiling proposal in March 2018 to August 2018 in the IAIN Tulungagung campus in the sense of data collection, report preparation, group meetings and most other activities carried out in the Tulungagung and Kediri areas. It involves people who have relevant information about the research theme, they are 46 students from the fourth semester in English majors who answered the pre-observation questionnaire, and post questionnaires but 46 interviewees, consisting of thirty-one women and sixteen men, were interviewed. The data was analysed using a descriptive qualitative approach. The finding revealed that the experienced students of using edmodo affected their readiness to take a part in English Phonology teaching using edmodo as a learning medium. The result of this study proved that the experienced students of using edmodo influences the fluency in learning phonology courses so they found it easier to apply Edmodo, serving as on the advantages (time-effective & efficient, not oblivious about computers, simplifying learning material, interactive, communicative, expressive, reducing cheating task, recognizing class management, creating reading habit) and disadvantages of using edmodo, similarly limited lexical items in content courses; differences in the level of competency, motivation, learning environment and background of previous learning; inadequate internet network; prefer to use gadgets for entertainment communication. Keywords: Edmodo, Students‟ perspective, advantages and disadvantages of using Edmodo A. Introduction Along with the changing times towards to millennial or digitalized era, it cannot be avoided. One of the successfulness of the nation‟s future depends on how the Youngers conduct some best efforts since today. Most of people agree that to prepare creative students, definitely they need to conduct mutual interaction process and become all their responsibilities, those are family, school, and society. Each of them has the different roles and they should conduct all well so that the education of students could achieve the goals. To educate students in this case, independent, creative and effective students could be started by creating atmosphere in order to make the students ask actively, to build ideas, and proactive, it means that they conduct any activities to give direct experience. In other words, the more efforts of studying they do, the better changing they get. The active changes means that the changes which do not happen unintentionally but they have try to change by themselves. Nowadays, Indonesian society have faced the new paradigm era, that is to learn could be conducted not only effectively but also enjoyably. To educate actually means that it is not a simple and easy matter. In philosophical level, to educate relates to process of human quality building and the civilization could produce it. Each student has any weaknesses and strengths, the different student from others show the uniqueness of each of them. As teachers and parents should not compare their competence each other if they want to motivate them, it is better to compare the previous students‟ achievement and the next achievement. The growth, sociable competence and independence of each student could be the important and basic aspects in order to make better the education; one of the ways is innova

FAQs

How long was the research conducted for the Edmodo-based phonology virtual class model?

The study collected data for six months, from proposal compilation in March 2018 to August 2018.

Who were the participants in the study?

The participants were 46 fourth-semester English major students who answered pre- and post-questionnaires, and 46 interviewees (thirty-one women and sixteen men).

What are the reported advantages and disadvantages of using Edmodo?

Advantages include time-effectiveness and efficiency, improved learning material handling, interactivity and communication, expressiveness, reduced cheating tasks, class management support, and building reading habits. Disadvantages include limited lexical items for content courses and issues such as inadequate internet network and preference for gadgets for entertainment communication.

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