gives emphasis that the widespread availability of some technological devices such as audiotape, videotape, CD-ROMs, DVDs and internet downloads of sound
and video filescan be potential input for language learning. Nowadays, technology has been growing more advanced. There is a new
mode of learning using technology, namely by using mobile phone or recently the more sophisticated one, that is using Android smartphone. Learning by using
mobile phone as the media can be called as mobile learning.
3. Fun Listening Android Application FLAP
Fun Listening Android Application FLAP is a product developed under R and D projectby Martanti 2015 and had been tested for its feasibility as the
media for learning listening. FLAPwas developed by using the program named appinventor
, that is by accessing http:ai2.appinventor.mit.edu
. FLAP consists
of some parts, that is the front page, home page, and content page. Each screen is connected to other screens by clicking at the instruction button. The front page of
the product is featured by picture and the instruction button “enter” to enable students to go to the next screen, that is the menu.
Figure 2.1 The Appearance of Front Page and Menu Page of FLAP
In the menu page, there are four buttons: Focus, Fun, Final and Forum. ‘Focus’ menu includes the audio materials, exercises, and the vocabulary review.
Fun menu includes entertainment such as songs, stories and poems. Final menu consists of some examples of the national exams questions for practice.
Meanwhile, the ‘Forum’ menu provides a place for students to share or to communicate with teachers or other students. The ‘Focus’ menu, if it is clicked it
will lead to ‘Topics’ which consists of fifteen units respresenting different themes such as Introducing Oneself and Others, Showing Sympathy, Describing People,
Visiting Jatim Park and Announcement.
Figure 2.2 The Appearance of Topics Menu
Each unit consists of three parts: Listen, Practice and Review. By clicking at the Listen button, students can listen to the audio in the forms of dialogue or
monologue. Meanwhile, by clicking at the Practice button, students can do the exercises in the forms of True or False, Multiple Choice or Short Answers. In the
last button, that is Review button, students can learn the language expressions and vocabularies related to the audio.
Figure 2.3 The Appearance of Focus Button Listen, Practice, Review
The next part is Fun which consists of language, stories and poems. Through this page, students can get entertainment in learning English by listening
to the fun audio. There are various songs, stories and poems that the students can listen while they can also learn through it. The examples of the Fun page can be
seen below.
Figure 2.4 The Appearance of Fun Button
The last button in the homepage that can be used for learning is the Final button. In the Final page, students can learn by doing some exercises which
mostly are taken from examples of the national exams questions. This is to give challenging opportunities for students to review their ability in listening after they
get some practices in the Focus and Fun page.
B. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
The first objective of the study is to discover the effect of FLAP on the listening comprehension. As it is known, there are many problems related to
listening comprehension. This research tries to discover whether FLAP can be effective media to solve listening comprehension problems and to improve
students listening comprehension. According to the theory, problems of listening comprehension are many. Underwood 1989 in Chen, 2005 stated that there are
seven listening problems often faced by learners: 1 listeners’ limited vocabulary, 2 failure to recognize the signals, 3 lack of control over the speed at which the
speaker speaks, 4 problems of interpretation, 5 not being able to get things repeated, 6 inability to concentrate, and 7 lack of listening habit
The following is the concept map of problems in listening comprehension. I tries to relate it with some advantages of FLAP which might be useful for solving
those problems. The usefulness of FLAP in solving the problems of listening comprehension will be explained in the next paragraph.
