Open AccessDesign and Development of Mobile Application in Indonesian Language Learning For Foreign Speakers Level A1
Author(s) -
Ermyna Seri,
Wiwinta Sutrisno
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1830/1/012009
Subject(s) - indonesian , android (operating system) , computer science , java programming language , multimedia , foreign language , phone , test (biology) , world wide web , java , psychology , operating system , mathematics education , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , biology
This paper describes about the design and development of Android mobile platform application in the learning of Indonesian Language for Foreign Speakers as the term used Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing or as abbreviated BIPA. The Android Studio is used to create and set up a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) and Kernel Linux Platform. The interface program was designed to give effectiveness and flexibilities required in the process of learning. The program code was written and installed in the users Smart Phone. The official language programming used for Android development is Java to make the program running easily for the users to use the application because the mobile application does not use many resources. Once the application was ready, then installed into various types of Smart Phone with various Android platforms, and tested. The program was tested to BIPA foreign students who were learning BIPA Level A1 to see if the program ran well. This aimed to test its effectiveness and impact. The data of pre-test and interview were collected from foreign students who have already learned Indonesian language before and who were never in order to see the baseline of respondents competencies. Pre-test, Post-test and interview test scores were compared to see if there was an increase in respondents competencies. The research findings shows that there was a significant increase on the foreign students’ skills. The increase on the written test through pre-test and post-test showed by 30% and 18 % on the interview. In contrast, the most significant increase was occurred in the group of students who never learned before. This increase showed by 56%, whereas the increase in the group of foreign students who have already learned Indonesian language showed by 12%. Furthermore, this increase significantly also occurred in interview at 32% to the group of foreign students who never learned Indonesian language before and 8% to the group of foreign students who already learned Indonesian language. This findings shows that Mobile Application provides effectiveness, efficiency, flexibilities, and accelerated learning to the group of foreign speakers who never learned BIPA before.