ANALYSIS ON THE INFUSION OF MICROLEARNING- BASED MODEL IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING MATERIAL OF EIGHT GRADERS

Abstract

Microlearning model in English language teaching has advanced and is now widely used.
There are only few researches which investigates the integration of microlearning in the
English learning material. This study aims to analyze and investigate in to what extent
microlearning infused in the English learning material for eighth graders. This study was
conducted through content analysis which is textbook analysis as the existing materials
used. The descriptors of microlearning are used for indicating the microlearning infusion
on material presented by the book instructions as the data. The findings show a
discrepancy between the descriptions of microlearning and the textbook. It is indicated
that microlearning descriptors are not fully infused in the textbook of eight graders. The
most descriptors of microlearning found in textbook are the ML 4 which refers to the
resources are based on the school curriculum, 2013, and ML 8 which refers to the feature
of students participating in the learning process distributed through the reflection tables
provided in each book chapter (30% each).