Blended Learning in English Department of STKIP AL MAKSUM Students: A Plan for Students' Independent Curriculum

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine how well students are performing on their own in blended language courses at universities, with the ultimate objective of determining the obstacles and potential for self-directed study. An online questionnaire will be administered to one hundred students enrolled in the English Department at STKIP Al Maksum in the month of October 2022. The findings allow for a number of significant conclusions to be reached. Students' social and demographic origins have an impact on how well they are able to self-organize and make effective use of technology to study a foreign language. This is especially true in the English Department. It has been determined that the following are the primary challenges that students face when completing independent work in blended learning of foreign languages at the English Department: technical, as well as the requirement for support from a technical specialist; the inconvenient nature of a blended learning system; the requirement for additional technical skills; the complexity of blended learning. It has also been determined, on average, how effective the learning process is that makes use of a system that combines traditional and online learning with technological elements.