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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter discusses the answers to the two research questions in this study. The two research questions in this study are what the Android application for
listening comprehension of Senior High School Grade X looks like and how the application supports m-learning. In this chapter, the realization of what have been
planned in Chapter III is presented. This chapter is divided into three parts. The first part is about the process of developing the iconic model. The second part is about
the presentation of the iconic model. Then, the third part presents the description on how the application supports Mobile Learning m-learning. The first and the
second part are the answer to the first research question. Meanwhile, the third part is the answer to the second research question.
A. Process of Developing the Iconic Model
The iconic model is the final version of the Android application which has been validated by the experts and the users. To develop the application, the
researcher employed some procedures. As mentioned in the research methodology, there were four main stages conducted in this research. Those stages are the
combination between Borg and Gall model RD model and Dick and Carey model Systems Approach Model. They were 1 information collecting, 2
planning, 3 development, and 4 evaluation and revision. In this section, the detailed processes done in each stage are elaborated.
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1. Information Collecting
As stated in the research methodology, the information collecting stage was done by conducting literature study and needs analysis. It was aimed to specify the
product to be made and to collect beneficial information for developing the product. Initially, the researcher noted some potential problems related to the teaching and
learning of English at the Senior High Schools. Then, it was found out that listening competence was one important issue to be discussed, especially because it had
became one of the parts in the National Examination. Then, the researcher selected the educational product that would be made to help solve the problems i.e. an
Android application which focuses on listening comprehension for Grade X students. After that, the researcher conducted a literature review. The literature
review covered listening comprehension, Mobile Learning m-learning as well as Mobile Assisted Language Learning MALL, Android development program App
Inventor, and Instructional Design ID model. In addition, the consideration in arranging activities that would be included
in the application was the micro-skills of listening comprehension proposed by Brown 2001. First, students should be able to recognize grammatical word classes
nouns, verbs, etc, systems tenses, agreement, pluralization, pattern, rules, and elliptical forms. Thus, the activities in the application were designed to enable
students to identify those aspects. Second, students can recognize the communicative functions of utterances, according to situations, participants, and
goals. Regarding with this, different discourses and expressions were included in the application. Next, students are able to develop and use a battery of listening
strategies, such as detecting keywords, guessing meaning of words from contexts,
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