BLENDED LEARNING

           The modern area, there are many approaches, methods, strategies, and techniques of English language teaching and learning. Some of them have been used by many teachers in teaching their students. One of several new methods introduced by many experts of teaching methodology is Blended Learning. There is no reliable definition of blended learning or even a universal agreement on the term itself, but many experts or even people try to give the explanation of Blended Learning itself. If you think about traditional classroom environment in one of the spectrum and in the other spectrum is a student learning computer at home, blended learning is somewhere in the middle. The students can attend the face to face learning sessions with their teacher and they also can do in online learning session. Traditional education tends to place an emphasis on delivering material by way of a lecture, while in a blended learning model teachers can be videotaped ahead of time so the student can watch on their own time and students are not engaged in lecture style instruction. An individual semester of blended learning may emphasize classroom time at the beginning, then gradually increase the amount of work that students do online or during independent study.

          Blended learning is a term increasingly used to describe the way e-learning is being combined with traditional classroom methods and independent study to create a new, hybrid teaching methodology. The Blended Learning has some models that can be used in teaching the students:

•               Face to face driver
  Face to face teachers deliver most of the curriculum. The teacher also guides the students in e-learning in lab or in the class to supplement.

•          Rotation
  The students have their schedule in online-learning by themselves and attending classroom for face to face learning with their teacher.

•          Flex
  Most of the curriculum is online learning, but the teacher is provided a small group in the class for tutoring the students so they will not misunderstand the difficult material that they read by themselves.

•          Online Lab
  The teacher brings the students to the computer lab to learn from the internet.

•          Self-Blended
  The students themselves take the remote online-learning to supplement their traditional classroom learning.

•          Online Driver
  An online platform and teacher deliver all the curriculum. Students work remotely and, and face to face check-ins are either available and mandatory.

          Blended learning is a complete package for the students, because it combined two thing which is online learning and traditional classroom learning. By the online learning, the students can learn by themselves about the subject with unlimited sources. But then, the student will also get the feedback from the teacher about the subject they learn by themselves so that they will not misunderstand the lesson/subject, even, they will have better understanding about it.