DEVELOPING INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA FOR LOCAL CULTURE-BASED TEXT WRITING IN MAÎTRISE DE LANGUE ÉCRITE COURSE

The maitrise de langue ecrite (MDLE) course is considered conventional in French teaching textbooks and needs to be reformed by using interactive multimedia which is expected to provide students with opportunity to experiment and explore. This study aimed at designing and developing interactive learning multimedia for texts writing which was based on local culture and such writing practice became part of MDLE course that required writing competency in French for the B1 DELF level. Research and development (R&D) was applied and adopted Thiagarajan’s Four-D stages and media was developed by using Macromedia Flash 8, a software program for creating two-dimensional animation. The final product of the learning media Macromedia Flash Professional 8 was packaged in a Compact Disc (CD) and its capacity of a file size was 200 MB. The learning media files were formatted in .swf, .fla, .flv formats, and a windows projector was operated on computers with the Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 Operating System (OS). The contents of the media included researchers’ profiles, materials, worksheets, and references for each chapter. The results show that the average of the overall scores from the alpha test I and II as validated by the materials experts were 92.85% and 100%, and by the media experts were 88.89% and 100%. Furthermore, the Beta test also show that students’ responses assessments were 86.1%. Thus, media products based on Macromedia Flash Professional 8 was approved as valid as learning media.