CONSTRUING EXPERIENCE OF SCHOLARS AS VERBAL OPERATORS ON BLOG COMMENTARY IN ICT CLASS

Abstract

Using ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in the world globalization is becoming important on educational field. It is invaluable need, especially to industrial revolution 4.0 where the environmental change toward to IT (Information Technology) systems. There are some ranges of cheap or free technology system as a package, such as: blogging, wikis, games, and etc. They provide the simple and practical ideas to support learning materials. It is potential in order to practical guidance for educators, like as: teachers and lecturers lead technology to explore the subjects which are fun for scholars. This research used blog commentary as a form of response from nine scholars in ICT class at STKIP Kusumanegara Jakarta. It was qualitative research and applying Halliday’s theory on the construing experience as key to know scholars’ functional lines on their writing skills. The objective of this research was to find out the construing experience of functional lines on scholars’ writing skills which designed by verbal operators. The results showed up the meaning of scholars’ expressions movement on their construing experiences. It was a special significance on the typical subject to verbal operators. Both of them are temporal and modal operators that express an interactive movement.