Development of French Civilization Learning Media Based on Adobe Captivate Software

Abstract

French civilization learning is a compulsory subject in the second semester, after participating in the learning program in this course, students are expected to have the ability to explain, compare, and apply the cultural values of French society to local wisdom so that they become honest, challenging, responsible and broad-minded, open-minded, and reliable people. The goal of this project is to use Adobe Captivate software to create instructional materials for French cultural learning in the French Language Education Program Faculty of Language and Arts UNIMED on La Gastronomie and Les Loisirs. These materials will be used in the classroom to facilitate student learning. The research method used is Research and Development developed by Borg and Gall. This study's data and data sources are information about the viability of learning media that has been verified by the validator. Students served as informants for a needs analysis questionnaire, and books, papers, and journals were used to supplement the data. The data collection instrument used for this research is in the form of an assessment sheet for the validators. The data analysis technique in this study uses percentage analysis. The results of the validation test by material experts are 89% while media experts are 95%. The results of material validation are included in the good category and the media validation results are included in the excellent category. The results can be concluded that the learning media developed using Adobe Captivate is declared valid for use in learning French for 2nd-semester students.