Exploring Mobile Applications Inlearning English Listening Skills: An Experience From Students Of MAN 1 Aceh Barat

The growth of technology triggered the improvement of mobile learning application which is supposed to be used by the students in learning especially English. The mobile learning application has many types and functions which can be used by the students in improving their listening skill. This study was conducted to find out the majority of mobile applications used by the students in improving their listening skill. This study was conducted in MAN 1 Aceh Barat with 30 participants. Questionnaire was the research instrument used in this research to collect the data from the participants. The researcher selected some mobile applications which were considered the most common use application in learning English. Those applications were Duo Lingo, Hello English, Fluent U, ELSA speak, Augmented reality application, Google translate, Youtube, Tik Tok and Instagram. By using SPSS version 23 for windows, the data were inputted and analyzed. The result showed that the students responded that the most influential mobile application to improve their listening skill was Duo Lingo with mean score 3,23 (High), YouTube (3,20), Google Translate (3,17), TikTok (2,60), ELSA Speak and Instagram with 2,30 (Low), Hello English (2,20), FluentU (1,80) and Augmented Reality Applications with 1,40 (Very Low).The result also revealed that several listening aspects that were improved by the use of mobile application were students’ pronunciation, words’ stress or intonation, vocabulary, English accents, their understanding of English short conversation and their ability of gaining the information from the English video or audio. In the conclusion, students believed that the use of mobile learning application assisted them in improving their listening skill.