The Responds of The Designing CALL CD’s Program

The 3rd assessment

The responds of the 1^st,2^nd,3^rd,and 4^th CD’s

1. Interactivity (Feedback and Instruction).

The instruction is so effective can be understand by the user well although the instruction is rather difficult to be understand because the voice of the speaker isn’t so clear that make the user need long time to understand it.

The feedback of the program is good and understandable and has a good impact for the user.

1. Usability (flexibility).

The flexibility is ease and has an inherent , the program can make the user interest and it has many good presentation that can make the user want to try the various program on the CD

1. Content Appropriateness.

The content appropriateness is concerned with the amount of the material presented in the program, the material is easy to be learned and understandable because the material is very suitable and meets the student’s need, it also need much time to operate the program so the user must be serious and patient in operating it.

1. Effectiveness

The program unit language learners can improve the students mastery of grammar although some of the grammar’s material and the vocabularies are difficult enough for the users because they are very complicated which is start from the easier and it is continued to the difficult one.

1. Performance (Attractiveness).

The Performance is very good because the way of the programmer in designing the presentation is so attractive, the lay out of the screen is clear and the choosing of the color is so clever based on the best illustration which has high creativity of the programmer to design them such as the pictures, diagram, charts etc.

Conclusion

The activities of studying language by using the CALL program especially using the CD is enjoyable for the students, but this program also has some problem for the students when the instruction of the activities or the voice of the speakers are not clearly or loudly enough to be understood and the problem in the CD itself can’t run well so it can cause new difficulties for the students to study English by using the CALL program, so the programmer must anticipate this problem well in their preparation of making the CD. Because this kind of problem can make the student boring or doesn’t interest to continue their studying. As we know that the CALL program is designed, developed and implemented well in order to concern students’ individual differences variables, if it is designed properly, this program can encourage and stimulate students thereby increasing their motivation and intention to learn the material.

According to the finding of Hartoyo’s(1998)The studying language by using CALL program indicates that social psychological students affect learning improvement and also reveals that a positive correlation was shown to exist, i.e., the greater the students’ knowledge of computers, or positive attitudes to learning English better their improvement scores were. In addition, as far as the CALL program is concerned, other related variables such as students’ attitudes toward and familiarity with computers, and time spent learning via the program also need to be taken into account.

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