Sub-topic screen Presentation of the Application

172 Figure 4.21. Conversation screen The conversation section is provided for the users to listen the conversation and then imitate the conversation, either using the provided text or creating their own conversation. As stated by Richards 1990 in Brown, 2001 that teaching conversation compromises two approaches, direct and indirect approaches. The indirect approach tends to let the learners engage interaction freely then they acquire conversational competence by engaging in meaningful task. On the other hand, the direct approach tends to have planned conversation which involved fluent conversation on its process. Result of the questionnaire showed that their ability to speak English in appropriate pace is fair 2.88. Besides that, the result of the questionnaire showed that their ability to express their ideas in good sentences when they have to communicate it in English is considered as fair 3.38. Related to conveying the message when speaking, the result was considered in fair category 3.46 that they were more concerned with the content of the message rather than the structure of 173 the sentence when speaking. Therefore, this section provided the audio of the conversation that worked as the input for the learners and it would enable the learners to be able to produce fluent and accurate conversation.

7. Language focus screen

The language focus summarises the language expressions used in the related topic. On another word, this screen gives the “grammar” used when the users are communication with patients. The users will be able read the material for their own practice. This screen is in landscape layout, to ease the users in reading the material. Figure 4.22. The language focus screen This section is provided because the result of need analysis questionnaire showed that they are in good category in terms of their ability understand information either in forms of graphics and tables 3.65, images 4.04 or written words 3.77. The result of the questionnaire also showed that readingwriting style is also high 3.96 in which they stated that it is easier for them to understand the learning content by reading and writing.