Mobile Learning Application Development for Improvement of English Listening Comprehension

Abstract

Abstract-Trend towards English language learning has been increased because it is considered as Lingua franca i.e. language of communication for all. However students of Pakistan are behind in this pace, especially rural elementary students. In rural areas there is crucial need to get assistance in their own curriculum after school because mostly they do not find anyone to help at home. M-Learning (Mobile Learning) assists learning anywhere and anytime. This ubiquitous power of M-Learning helps in after school programs and education in rural areas. The aim of this study is to develop M-Learning application for improvement of English listening comprehension in rural primary school students. This study developed English learning application based on Listening Comprehension, which embeds English curriculum of Sindh Textbook board for grade 1, 2 and 3. This study took the form of an after-school program in a village in Pakistan. There were 45 students of grade 3 from rural primary school of Pakistan selected as participants. Since developed application is based on recognition and memorization of information, so that knowledge and comprehension level of cognitive domain from Bloom's taxonomy were selected for choosing the type of evaluation questions. On the basis of those question types, EGRA (Early Grade Reading Assessment) test is used for evaluation. This test was conducted on two experimental groups and one control group and the results of the groups were compared to one another. The results confirm that English Mlearning applications can become helpful tool for students who live in rural areas where they face problems in learning of their English curriculum, since their relatives are not capable to teach them as accordingly.

Telegram App in Learning English: EFL Students’ Perceptions

“…From the results illustrated in the table (3) the highest mean score (3.62) was obtained for item st13, "Using Telegram makes the learning of reading skill more fun." This finding proved by Laghari et al (2017) who concluded that students were happy, excited, and motivated to learn via M-learning application.…”

Developing digital literacy application for Extensive Listening materials

“…This finding supports the previous research on developing a Mobile-Assisted Language Learning Application (MALL) for English Intensive Course (IC) (Rohandi et al, 2017) confirming that the MALL application is useful and helpful for students to increase their motivation in understanding the materials of IC textbook. Our study is also in line with Ubiquitous Fitness English Listening Comprehension System (UFELCS) designed by Liu et al (2018) incorporating collaborative listening activities into a fitness center, a media made by Utami et al, (2021) developing E-Learning with Schoology in hybrid learning strategy in listening skill of Tadulako University, the website (ELLLO -English Listening Lesson Library Online, n.d.), the use of ELLO in Improving in Teaching Listening to Students (Hadi et al, 2021), M-Learning application developed by Parveen et al (2017) for rural primary students in Pakistan, a smartphone application evaluating music listening habits for 35 days, and also research-based listening materials utilizing multimedia for seventh-grade students of lower secondary schools developed by Rakhmawati et al (2016) using CD/DVD/flash disk format employing Text-to-Speech and Audacity software and a computer installed an additional software named macromedia flash CS6. They claimed that the usefulness of their product is to develop the students' motivation to learn while providing a prototype of supplementary listening materials for English textbook using Curriculum 2013 which has no listening practices within.…”