Research Paper
Year: 2021 | Month: March | Volume: 8 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 370-373
Learning Local Culture Becomes More Effective with Online Cultural Blogs in the New Normal Covid-19 Pandemic
Vera Kristiana1, Yayuk Yuliana2
1,2Prodi Sastra Inggris, Prodi Manajemen, Universitas Muslim Nusantara Al-Washliyah, Medan, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Vera Kristiana
ABSTRACT
This research examined the concept of learning the local culture of the community based online cultural blog in English for Tourism lecture in the new normal era. The lecture was closely related to the student's ability to master cultural knowledge, especially local culture, tourists, tourist attractions, and community economic activities and students were expected to be able to interpret this. During the current new normal covid-19 pandemic, all lectures were recommended not to meet face to face as an effort to prevent the transmission of covid-19. Lecturers must have a learning concept that was able to stimulate students to remain active and creative while taking distance lectures, especially in English For Tourism lectures, in which there was a lot of material that must be conveyed by lecturers to students. One of the learning concepts that was considered appropriate for teaching English for Tourism courses in the new normal era as it was today was the concept of learning based on Online Cultural Blog. It was an online blog whose contents were in the form of matters related to tourism culture. While the blog itself stood for web log, which was a web application in the form of writings (which were loaded as posts) on a web page. The content in this blog was expected to be able to help students became more enthusiastic in understanding the material in the English For Tourism course, which was mostly related to tourism culture. Therefore, learning objectives were still achieved even though they were not carried out face-to-face with students in the new normal era.
Keywords: Online Cultural Blog, English For Tourism, Learning Concept, New Normal.
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