THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MOBILE ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (MALL) IN LEARNING PRONUNCIATION (A Descriptive Study in one of the Private Universities in Ciamis)

Abstract

This article reports on the teacher’s ways in implementing MALL in learning students’ pronunciation, the students’ perception toward the use of MALL to improve students’ pronunciation. Furthermore, the writer used qualitative research in which descriptive study. There were twenty students at the first grade and an English lecturer who taught English pronunciation which recommended English pronunciation application as a tool in mobile learning as the participant of this study which has been chosen purposively. An interview and closed-ended questionnaires were also prepared for the research instruments in collecting the data. The writer concluded that the teacher implemented MALL by using English Pronunciation application, and seeing the slight difficulties the application can help ease teacher’s task, and improve student’s pronunciation skills. Then, the way of the teacher in implementing English pronunciation practice application as one of the kind of MALL has something in common with Haggag’s theory (2018, p. 45) about Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL). In this case, it was concluded that most students felt English Pronunciation practice as part of MALL was the activities that make the students enjoy in joining the teaching learning process, enhance students’ speaking skill, was able to enhance students’ speaking skill. Actually, the difficulties or the weakness that could be faced by the lecturer to the students in learning English pronunciation was the situation of the class. Despite of some weaknesses in this study, it gives huge opportunities for the other researchers to make this study more perfect in similar field under different interest.