Students’ Perspectives on ‘PeVe App’ to Learn English Phrasal Verbs

Abstract

Learning English Phrasal Verbs (PVs) is one of the biggest challenges for the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in higher education in Indonesia that demands a learning method coping with the development of technology and teaching devices. PeVe app is a new platform designed to support EFL learners to learn English PVs for developing their writing skills. The research aimed to discover the EFL students’ perspectives on the development of first-level content of PeVe apps in learning English PVs and to get their feedback on its development. Extreme Programming was used for developing PeVe Apps and the last phase of testing was carried out by distributing an online questionnaire to 70 students in two classes at one university with 62 responses. A descriptive quantitative was used to analyze the data. The result shows that more than 90% agree that the apps for learning PVs are supportive and more than 80% agree that learning English using the apps is fun and most agree this app supports them in learning English PVs. From the feedback, several things need to be added to the landing page, material, exercises, and the quiz. Since this app is a pilot project, only one at the Beginner level is available. Therefore, it is needed to develop to the further levels with various pictures, summaries of tasks, and listening materials. Thus, it is suggested for further research to improve PeVe Apps.Keywords— Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), RUU Omnibuslaw, Sentiment Analysis, Twitter.