99 connection.
Useful Expression Review Multiple Choices
Forum
4. Tolerance for error
Students are able to edit posts and they are also
provided by feedback for the activities.
Jumbled Words Vocabulary
Pronunciation Drill Review Multiple Choices
5. Low physical and
technical effort
Students are able to input text as the answer of the
activities into the devices in easy way.
Jumbled Words Listening Practice
6. Community of learners and
support Students
are able
to communicate one another
as a group discussion. Forum
There are four exercises in AFORN; 1 Vocabulary, 2 Useful Expression, 3 Tasks, and 4 Pronunciation Drill. All the activities and features
can be accessed by the students in simple way. This is based on principle of
equitable use. Vocabulary practice provides the learner pictures or medical terms
dealing with the topic being discussed in each unit. In this section, students can also hear the correct pronunciation of the term and practice it with the feedback
after it. The students can still do this activity even though there is no internet connection. If the students make mistakes they can revise it or try again the
activity. Useful Expression provides the students with some expression which are
usually used in the conversation with the patients. The expressions help the students to produce proper dialog with patients. The students can also hear the
spoken expressions . The students can only click the button „play‟ to hear the
correct pronunciation. They can do it in many times. Tasks section consists of three exercises, namely; Jumbled Words, Listening Practice, and Group
Assessment. In Jumbled Words, student should arrange the jumbled words into
100 a good sentence. They can revise it until they get correct answer since the
feedback will directly appear after clicking the button „answer‟. By rearranging the jumbled words, the students get practice on grammar and structures of
English. The second exercise in Tasks section is Listening Practice. In this part
students will learn conversations by native speakers, the text is also provided but there are some words missing. So, the students must complete the text. No internet
connection needed in this part. The students can just simply fill in all the blanks
and then click button „check‟ to know the result. The last part in Task section is Group Assessment. In this part, the students make dialog with the topic chosen
then they should submit the recorded dialog to the lecturer. The last is
Pronunciation Drill which provides some medical terms completed with
pronunciation practice. The students can hear the correct pronunciation then practice it. The feedback will also appear after. After completing exercises in each
unit, the students can go to Review. Review helps the students recognize many
nursing equipments, such as cotton swab, blood pressure monitor, lancets, etc. All the exercises are completed with feedback and also scoring so the students know
their progress. In the end of the learning even only learn in one unit or all unit, then the
students should enter the data like name and student number. The data then will be saved in the application. The data shows how many times a student has entered
the AFORN. Besides the five lessons, Review and many other activities, there are
also Forum zone and About zone. In Forum zone, the students can chat with
their peers or lecturer. It helps the students have group discussion. The discussion can be via email, Blackberry Messenger BBM, BBM Group, WhatsApp,
101 Facebook Messenger, Short Message Service SMS, Google Drive, Google +,
Bluetooth, Line , Wifi, or Dropbox. About zone provides information about the
application, author, and references. The choice of exercises and activities also considered the Brown‟s
Microskills of oral communication 2000. He claimed that in teaching oral communication, teacher should help the students to learn not only the main part
language but also some components that build the main skill. It means that students should learn some other skills like producing chunks, correct
pronunciation, grammar competence, using appropriate words, phrases, sentences in certain context p. 272. Listening activity also plays important rules as the
major index of language proficiency. Listening activity is as important input in
second language acquisition p.248. Vocabulary activity helps the learner to
produce words or phrases with correct English stress patterns and intonation,
Useful Expression helps the students to produce phrases and sentences in certain context in order to accomplish pragmatic purposes, Grammar practice in Jumbled
Words helps the students with correct grammatical word classes, word orders, and patterns. Listening practice can be the comprehensible input or second
language learners, Pronunciation Drill gives the students opportunity to produce English stress patterns and intonational contours. Group Assessment that
students in group of two should make dialog with certain topic is the assessment for the students‟ progress after learning materials, activities and exercises in
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