Building and Developing S-P-A Mobile Application for Enhancing Chinese Communication to Healthy Massage Personnel

Abstract

This research aimed to design and develop S-P-A mobile application prototype and find its efficiency on Android operating system in order to support the massage personnel in Chinese communication for providing healthy massage services. The research procedures were divided into 5 steps such as analysis, designing, development, application, and evaluation. Findings showed that the research sample was needed Chinese skills development, but the materials and time were the main limitations for them. Therefore, the researcher designed and developed a mobile application focusing on listening and speaking skills contents, which covered the steps of massage service. The implementation of the application found to indicate that the average test scores of the second trail of the sample’s listening and speaking skills practice was significantly higher than the first trail. Also, their satisfaction towards the application was in a high level.