Passivo –passive voice mobile application for learning passive voice among students of polytechnic

Abstract

The use of mobile applications in second language learning is no stranger in teaching and learning English as a second language. The development of Passivo mobile application focuses on the learning objectives of the study that is (a) to develop the mobile application – ‘Passivo’ that can be used by the students; (b) to investigate the effectiveness of mobile application – Passivo in passive voice learning in terms of promoting active learning and learner motivation among students. (c)To identify any significant difference in scores between using ‘Passivo’ apps and traditional instruction among semester 3 students. (d) to identify the students’ perceptions towards using ‘Passivo – Passive Voice’ apps in learning Passive Voice in terms of ease of use, usefulness and attitude. The research design used was experimental design with pretest and post-test of passive voice between treatment and control group, and also the distribution of the questionnaire asking their perceptions of Passivo application in terms of active learning and motivation. Besides, perceptions on Perceived Ease of Use, Perceived Usefulness and Attitude were also asked. 71 students of semester 2 from southern polytechnic who learn the subtopic of passive voice from the Process and Procedure topic in DUE30022 Communicative English 2. The groups were divided into the treatment group and the control group. The result shows that the Active Learning scores recorded the mean of 3.71 and Motivation recorded the mean of 3.68. Meanwhile, the Perceived Ease of Use recorded the mean of 3.81, Perceived Usefulness with 3.83 and Attitude was 3.81. Finally, for the pre-test and post-test scores between treatment group students (mean = 15.57, SD = 3.751) was higher compared to the control group (mean = 14.20, SD = 3.496). It indicates that there was a significant difference of Passive Voice scores between control and treatment group. In general, Passivo mobile application is the potential learning application that could be extensively used by the students to learn passive language.