NEEDS ANALYSIS OF READING MATERIALS WITH CASE-METHOD USING A MOBILE APPLICATION: INTEGRATING WETLAND TOPICS IN SOUTH KALIMANTAN

Rina Listia, Abdul Muth’im, Eka Puteri Elyani Rizky Amelia

Abstract


One of the studied topics in teaching material that can be elaborated on and is relevant to students lives in South Kalimantan is the topic of wetland environment. This is due to the important role of the wetland environment and the need for an approach to enable students to have the knowledge and are aware of the importance of the surrounding wetland areas. With a student-centered case method, the urgency of this research is to analyze students' needs for developing reading materials on wetland topics in South Kalimantan with a case method using a mobile application. This study used a qualitative approach to analyze the needs of prospective users of the mobile application reading materials based on the case method based on the wetland environment at the college level in South Kalimantan. The population in this study were all students from nine English education study programs in South Kalimantan with respondents who voluntarily filled out a questionnaire provided via Google Form. The main target of this research is to develop an application that can be downloaded on the play store for Reading teaching materials based on a wetland environment for all English language education study programs in South Kalimantan in particular and the play store user community in general with the results to be obtained from this needs analysis. The data in the questionnaire would be confirmed through interviews with representatives of the English Language Education study program lecturers in South Kalimantan. Then, the data were analyzed descriptively. Through this needs analysis, it is hoped that it will be able to meet the needs and wants of prospective users of the mobile application of reading materials on wetland topics in South Kalimantan with case-method in higher education level South Kalimantan.

Keywords: mobile app, needs analysis, reading materials, wetland topics


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