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Year: 2023 | Month: July | Volume: 10 | Issue: 7 | Pages: 585-592

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20230769

Developing the Wordtheme-Based French Digital Dictionary for Hotel and Restaurant Industry

Lilis Novianti1, Jubliana Lamria Sitompul2, Zulherman2

1Postgraduate Student, Department of French Education, Universitas Negeri Medan, Medan, Indonesia
2Department of French Education, Universitas Negeri Medan, Medan, Indonesia.

Corresponding Author: Jubliana Lamria Sitompul

ABSTRACT

This study aims to develop a digital dictionary in Wordtheme application package for hotel and restaurant industry. Developing such package requires ADDIE stage consisting of five phases, namely analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. The data content of the dictionary was taken from textbooks and hospitality websites including French vocabulary, Indonesian translations, phonetics, genders, explanations, sample sentences, pictures, and vocabulary pronunciation. To know its feasibility before being tested on students, a validation test on the material and media aspects was held. The average scores of material validation and media value reached 88.6% and 86.1% respectively, which were categorized as "very good". Then, to know its effectiveness, pre- and post-tests were carried out and the students’ average scores in the pre- and post-tests were 63 and 86 for each. The result shows that the average score of N-Gain (g) was 0.73 which was in the “high” category, and this category indicates the effectiveness on the use of the Wordtheme digital dictionary in the learning process.

Keywords: learning media, digital dictionary, French for hotel and restaurant industry, wordtheme

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