LIVEWORKSHEETS-BASED DIGITAL STUDENT WORKSHEETS FOR EFL READING: VALIDITY AND PRACTICALITY
LIVEWORKSHEETS-BASED DIGITAL STUDENT WORKSHEETS FOR EFL READING: VALIDITY AND PRACTICALITY
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https://doi.org/10.24252/elstic-ij.v6i02.73549Abstract
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Indonesian senior high school students often show low interest in English reading, and many schools still rely on printed student worksheets that offer little interaction or immediate feedback. This study developed digital-based student worksheets for reading instruction and examined their validity and practicality for Grade XI students. Following the Planning, Design and Development stages of Alessi and Trollip's model, the worksheets were designed in Canva and made interactive on the Liveworksheets platform. They contained two reading texts on environmental figures with clickable audio, ten multiple-choice comprehension items, ten fill-in-the-blank items and a word puzzle. Needs were analysed through a teacher interview and a questionnaire completed by two Grade XI classes at a public senior high school in Takalar, South Sulawesi. Validity was assessed by a material expert and a media expert over two rounds, and practicality through response questionnaires completed by an English teacher and 25 students, all on a four-point scale. The material validation reached a mean of 3.94 and the media validation rose from 3.83 to 3.88 after revision, both in the very valid category. The teacher (M = 3.63) and the students (M = 3.60) also rated the worksheets very practical, with the lowest ratings for construction and language. The findings indicate that teachers can develop valid and practical interactive reading worksheets with freely available tools. Their effect on reading comprehension, however, remains to be tested in a controlled classroom study.
Keywords: Digital student worksheets; EFL reading; Liveworksheets; Research and development; Validity and practicality
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