MOBILE ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (MALL): WHATSAPP GROUP APPLICATION ON TRANSLATION LANGUANGE LEARNING (A Case Study at One of Universities in Ciamis)

Abstract

Recently, the used of mobile devices have been rise rapidly, it used for obtaining information, reaching knowledge, and educational purposes. Whatsapp application is an application to sand massage both of personal or group and it becomes one of teaching and learning media. This study was intended to examine the students’ and teacher’ perception towards using WhatsApp application as a translation teaching learning media. In this survey, there were 33 students and a teacher selected as research participants. They were provided with close ended questionnaire and semi structured interview. In this study, there are two research questions as follows: (1) How do the students perceive the use of Whatsapp Group Application in translation subject? (2) How does the teacher perceive the use of Whatsapp Group Application in translation subject? The result revealed that the students approved that whatsapp gives them a lot of benefits in learning and doing their tasks in translation subject. In addition, whatsapp made them active to speak English during learning and make them more interest of the translation subject. On the other hand, the students could learn translation anywhere and anytime they are. Additionally, the result of second research question showed that the lecturer thought that whatsapp was quite effective way in teaching and learning translation. Whatsapp allowed the students to get information or materials quickly and made the students more active than in face to face class.