Search Engines to Help Students’ Assignment

By: Agata Nina Puspita

As it is known that there are many ways that the teacher can use in the learning activity to teach the students. Since this is the globalization era, one of the way that the teacher can use is by using Search Engines when looking for online information. Through Search Engines, both the teacher and the students can search all information from one convenient place and explore related works, citation, authors and publications from others. On this occasion, Search Engines application will be used in English language class. In this class, there are 30 students and all of them are able to use the technology well since they live in the era of the technology development. As the teacher, I will use one meeting in my English class to do the assignment by using Search Engines application.

In order to help students’ language ability, this class will design to help students to improve students’ listening, reading, writing and speaking skills in English language. Since there are many ways that the teacher can implement in the classroom in order to deliver the materials, I will use Search Engines application. As an English language teacher, I use Search Engines application because it provides the teacher with many access to search about what I want to know. I will conduct one meeting in my English class for students to use Search Engines application to do the assignment. The assignment that is given to the students is that they have to find articles about news report and they have to analyse it. Since they live in the technology era, I will use the development of the technology to help them in doing their assignment. First, I will tell them about the activity that they will do in one learning activity before the class start by using Search Engines. I will give the explanation on how to access and how to use the Search Engines, so they can do the assignment. Next, I will give them the example and I will make sure that every students has understood about what they are going to do. After they have understood, I will distribute the assignment and they will do the assignment in pairs, so it will make them easier in doing the assignment. For that reason, this one meeting classroom will be conducted in the computer laboratory in order to help them to access the internet easily.