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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

This chapter presents the conclusions and suggestions of this research. In the first part, the conclusions are drawn based on the previous chapters. Meanwhile, the second part presents the suggestions to improve the study for the English teachers and the future researchers.

A. Conclusions

In this part, the researcher draws some conclusions according to the results of the study which are discussed in the previous chapter. An Android application, named Fun Listening Android Application FLAP was developed to be used by the students of Senior High Schools to facilitate them in practicing listening comprehension. The first question is about the iconic model of the Android application for tenth grade students of Senior High Schools. The application was developed using the combined model of R and D model by Borg and Gall 1983 and Dick and Carey model 2003. The last version of the application was considered good and acceptable for the students by the score 0.9 of the maximum score 2. The application consists of four main parts, namely: Focus, Fun, Final, and Forum. The Focus part consists of fifteen units and each of them consists of Listen, Practice, and Review. The Listen section contains an audio and its transcription. Then, the Practice section contains an exercise, in the form of true-false, multiple choice, or filling blanks. Meanwhile, the Review section contains some vocabulary or expressions to be learnt related to the topics. The second part is Fun consisting of three sections, 127 namely Song, Story and Poem. All of them are in the form of filling blank activities. The third part is Final part consisting of some multiple choice exercises. This part is a mini test, like the listening section in the National Examination, aimed to give a little description for the students what the listening test in the National Examination looks like. Then, the last part is the Forum part which facilitate the users i.e. the students to communicate or share something via social media, such as Whatsapp, BBM, email, bluetooth, and the likes. The second question is about how the application supports Mobile Learning m-learning in senior high schools. This application was specifically designed based on the principles of Mobile Learning proposed by Elias 2011. There are seven principles of m-learning which are integrated in this application, namely: 1 equitable use, 2 flexible use, 3 simple and intuitive, 4 perceptible information, 5 tolerance of error, 6 low physical and technical effort and 7 community of learners and support.

B. Suggestions

In this section, the researcher would like to give some suggestions for English teachers, for the students, and other researchers who want to conduct similar studies. First, the suggestions are addresed to the English teachers, especially in Senior High Schools. Teachers must be aware that their students are digital natives – born in the digital eras. Teachers should be prepared with the invansion of technology in teaching and learning contexts. One of them is the implementation of Mobile Learning m-learning i.e. by using mobile devices as learning media. Before implementing technology in classroom, teachers should be equipped with 128 adequate knowledge and ability to use such technology. Moreover, teachers need to develop their creativity in designing the media and learning activitiestasks. Therefore, teachers should not cease to learn and always encourage the students to effectively learn in such atmosphere. Besides, teachers should do a good monitoring to the students when mobile phones are used in the classroom. Second, some suggestions are given to the students. Mobile learning provides opportunities for students to be autonomous learners. However, they should realize that using mobile phones for learning has both advantages and disadvantages. Students should lower other distractions when they learn through their mobile phones so that the disadvantages can be minimized. Students should also try to monitor their own progress and difficulties in learning. The last suggestion is for the other researchers who want to conduct similar studies. Developing an Android application using App Inventor has some limitations, especially the size. Therefore, the materials should be packaged as succinct as possible. The selection of the lesson units can be limited to one semester only so that the contents can be more various and complete. 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