English Language in Focus (ELIF)
Vol 5, No 1 (2022): English Language in Focus (ELIF)

Developing e-Book as English Learning Media for Deaf Students

Putra Pratama (Universitas Tamansiswa Palembang)
Destia Dwi Mulyani (Universitas Tamansiswa Palembang)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Dec 2022

Abstract

This Research and Development (R&D) study aimed to develop English e-book for 10th grade deaf students and measure the extent to which this e-book was valid, practical and effective to use as learning media. Three stages of R&D proposed by (Akker, 1990); analysis, design, evaluation and revision applied by the writers in developing that e-book. To measure the validity and practicality of this e-book, the criteria of (Tessmer, 1993) was used as the reference. Meanwhile, the effectiveness of this e-book was measured based on Minimum Mastery Criterion of English subject determined by the school. There were 4 experts, 2 English teachers, and 9 students with hard of hearing involved in this research work. The findings of this study revealed that the e-book developed by the writers reached the levels of ‘very high valid’ (4.45) and ‘very high practical’ (4.55). Additionally, this e-book was also found effective since the students’ English test results exceeded the Minimum Mastery Criterion of 72. Referring to these findings this research concluded that the English e-book developed by the writers was valid, practical, and effective to be utilized as English learning media for 10th grade students of hard of hearing.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ELIF

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

English Language in Focus (ELIF) Journal conceptually concerned on an interdisciplinary field of English Applied Linguistics and Literature, including: Bilingualism Multilingualism Conversation Analysis Contrastive Linguistics Sign Linguistics Language Assessment Literacies Discourse Analysis ...