THE USE OF MOBILE

APPLICATION AS THE
SOLUTION IN TEACHING AND
LEARNING LISTENING

Elsa Elfiona
M.Zaim
Refnaldi

UNIVERSITAS NEGERI PADANG

2019
PRESENTATION OUTLINE

What’s happening in todays

classroom?

How does technology affect the

teaching and learning process?

Mobile Application as the solution in

teaching and learning Listening
What’s happening in the classroom?

Listening skill in English

subject is almost neglected in
teaching and learning
process.

The materials provided is not

enough

The media to teach listening

are limited
How does technology affect the teaching
and learning process?
A lot of sophisticated technology, e.g Android, Apple, tablet,
iPads.

Fact:
Most of the students in
senior high school have been
facilitated by smartphone
which is multi-functional
devices used for
communication,
entertainment, networking
and learning.
 Utilizing Mobile Apps as learning media for the
students is being trending in many countries

Apps and EFL: A case study on the use of smartphone apps to

learn English by four Japanese university students. (Mindog
Emily, 2016).

A Study on the Impact of Mall (Mobile Assisted

Language Learning) on EFL Learners’ Reading
Comprehension. European Centre for Research Training and
Development UK. (Khubyari Leila, Mehry Haddad
Narafshan, 2016)

Utilizing Mobile Assested Language Learning (MALL)

to Develop EFL Listening Skills and Learner Autonomy.
(Mohamed Desouky Gaber. 2015)
Authentic Listening Materials
Application (ALMA)

What is ALMA?

ALMA (Authentic Listening

Materials) is an application used
to improve the students’
listening skill which is designed
based on the students’ needs
that are adjusted to the
Kurikulum 2013.
The features of ALMA

• consists of the topics of English subject

based on the main and basic competence of
Kurikulum 2013. It shows the goals and
objectives of each topic to help the teacher
and the students to know what they are
Content
going to learn. The topics are adopted from
Mapping the kurikulum 2013 books, such as Talking
about Self, Congratulating and
Complimenting Others, Expressing
Intention, Descriptive Text, Announcement,
Recount Text, Narrative Text, and Songs.
 • provides the exercises for each topic which has
several audio pages. These pages contain of the
audio, the language features, the instruction,
and the multiple choice items. In doing the
exercises, the students are initially asked to
read the language features to stimulate their
Listening background knowledge about the topic. Then,
Materials they read the instruction and the questions.
After that, they can play the audio by tapping
the icon ( ). After listening to the audio, they
can choose the correct answer. The key answer
will be displayed directly after they tap the
answer.
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 • include the strategies that can be used
by the students in developing their
Listening listening skill, such as top-down and
Strategies bottom-up strategy. These strategy
hopefully may help the students to get
easy in listening practice.
Sources • provides the information of where the
menu audios are taken
 DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

KI-KD

KI 3 KI4
3.4 membedakan fungsi 4.4 menangkap makna
sosial, struktur teks, dan secara kontekstual terkait
unsur kebahasaan fungsi sosial, struktur
beberapa teks deskriptif teks, dan unsur
lisan dan tulis dengan kebahasaan teks
memberi dan meminta deskriptif, lisan dan tulis,
informasi terkait tempat pendek dan sederhana
wisata dan bangunan terkait tempat wisata dan
bersejarah terkenal, bangunan bersejarah
pendek dan sederhana, terkenal
sesuai dengan konteks
penggunaannya
 Descriptive Text-1

Who is the man favorite teacher?

Mr. Thom Mr Dan Mr. Rome Mr. Conle
Where does the teacher come from?
Australia United State Canada Rome
Why does he like the teacher?
The teacher is wise The teacher is handsome
The teacher is honest The teacher is friendly
Does the student want to be a teacher?
Yes, he does. He want to be an English teacher
No, he doesn’t. He want to be a Doctor
Yes, he does. He want to be a lecturer
No, he doesn’t. He want to be a Chef
What did the teacher usually wear when he was coming to the class?
Green Shoes Grey Shoes
Grey Head Green Head