Developing an Audiobook for Listening Courseware

Abstract

This study aims to develop an audiobook for learning listening to students. This research was conducted using the Borg & Gall development method, with several adjustments for research needs. The research stages carried out were (1) preliminary studies, (2) planning, (3) product development, (4) product validation, (5) first stage revision, (6) product testing, (7) second stage revision, and (8) dissemination. Some innovations are integrated into this book that was developed. This innovation is in the form of integrating theory and lis-tening to various types of texts, from conversational texts to narrative texts. The product developed is listening courseware, which is present-ed in a flash application. The results showed that the products devel-oped were in accordance with the student needs and could increase student independence. The results of validation tests and trials show that the product developed is feasible to be implemented with an aver-age percentage of the assessment results of 90.71%.