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Tesis ini membahas bagaimana sinkronisasi teknologi Web 2.0, yaitu melaluiVoiceThread, dapat membantu pengajar kemahiran berbicara meningkatkanpemberian balikan formatif di pengajaran berbicara. Penelitian ini menunjukkanbahwa penggunaan VoiceThread mampu menjadi salah satu solusi untuk membantupengajar yang hendak memberi balikan secara spesifik, jelas, dan akurat pada kegiatanperformansi lisan. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tindakan yang melibatkan enampemelajar EFL di salah satu perguruan tinggi di Indonesia. Sebelum VoiceThreaddapat berperan untuk meningkatkan pemberian balikan formatif, penelitian inimenemukan bahwa pengajar perlu memenuhi lima upaya berikut: (1) Membuat ProfilPemelajar; (2) Membuat Desain Pemelajaran; (3) Memahami Pemberian BalikanFormatif; (4) Menentukan Rubrik Penilaian; dan (5) Implementasi VoiceThread.Implementasi VoiceThread ini didesain tidak hanya bertujuan membantu pengajarmeningkatkan pemberian balikan formatif, tetapi juga membuat siswa dapatmemerhatikan dan memelajari pemberian balikan formatif pengajar. Untuk mencapaitujuan tersebut, hasil dari penelitian tindakan ini menunjukkan bahwa pemberianbalikan formatif melalui VoiceThread menjadi bernilai karena merupakan mekanismeyang mengkombinasikan pertemuan asinkron dan tatap muka. Mekanisme inikemudian diistilahkan menjadi action research on blended learning.

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This thesis discusses how synchronizing Web 2.0 technologies, particularly by usingVoiceThread, is able to help English speaking teachers to improve their formativefeedback in the teaching of speaking skills. This study shows that the use ofVoiceThread able to become one of the solutions to help teachers who want to providespecific, clear and accurate feedback on oral performance activities. This study is anaction research which involves six EFL learners at one of universities in Indonesia.Before VoiceThread can contribute to improve teachers? formative feedback, thisstudy found that teachers need to do the following five matters, they are: (1) Makinglearners profile; (2) Making lesson plan; (3) Understanding formative feedback; (4)Determining assessment rubric; and (5) Implementing VoiceThread. ImplementingVoiceThread is not only designed to help teachers improve their formative feedback,but also make their students able to notice and learn their teacher?s formative feedbackafterward. To achieve these objectives, the result of this action research study indicatesthat giving formative feedback by using VoiceThread is worthwhile since it is amechanism that combines the asynchronous learning and face-to-face. Thus, this canbe considered as an action research on blended learning., This thesis discusses how synchronizing Web 2.0 technologies, particularly by usingVoiceThread, is able to help English speaking teachers to improve their formativefeedback in the teaching of speaking skills. This study shows that the use ofVoiceThread able to become one of the solutions to help teachers who want to providespecific, clear and accurate feedback on oral performance activities. This study is anaction research which involves six EFL learners at one of universities in Indonesia.Before VoiceThread can contribute to improve teachers’ formative feedback, thisstudy found that teachers need to do the following five matters, they are: (1) Makinglearners profile; (2) Making lesson plan; (3) Understanding formative feedback; (4)Determining assessment rubric; and (5) Implementing VoiceThread. ImplementingVoiceThread is not only designed to help teachers improve their formative feedback,but also make their students able to notice and learn their teacher’s formative feedbackafterward. To achieve these objectives, the result of this action research study indicatesthat giving formative feedback by using VoiceThread is worthwhile since it is amechanism that combines the asynchronous learning and face-to-face. Thus, this canbe considered as an action research on blended learning.]