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.
Figure 2.5 The Conceptual Framework of the Study
Listening comprehension is a complex cognitive process. Therefore, listening comprehension is difficult in a second or foreign language Lynch and
Mendelsohn, 2002: 207. There are many factors contributing to the success of understanding messages in spoken language. One of them is related to the
students’ familiarity with features of spoken language. Students especially in EFL context often face difficulties since they are not familiar to the features of spoken
language such as vocabulary and sounds signals Underwood, 1989 in Chen, 2005. In order to be familiar, they need to expose themselves with English
vocabularies and sound signals. Unfortunately, many EFL learners have very few opportunities to get exposure input in their surrounding from which they can
familiarize themselves with vocabularies and sound signals in English. This problem might be solved by using media, in this case is FLAP. The role of media
