DEVELOPMENT OF THE FRENCH TOURISM DICTIONARY BASED ON LOCAL WISDOM USING WORDTHEME

This study aims to develop a digital dictionary using the Wordtheme application in the Français du Tourisme course which contains French vocabulary along with translations, explanations, categories, example sentences, images and audio for 7th semester students in the Unimed French Study Program and to determine the feasibility level of learning media developed. This study uses the Research and Development (R&D) method of Sugiyono's development model which consists of 5 stages, namely determining potential and problems, collecting data, designing products, validating product designs, and revising product designs. The product of this research is a softcopy which contains 125 vocabularies of Français du Tourisme based on Batak Toba. There are nouns with a percentage of 81.1%, adjectives 7.2%, verbs 13.6%, and prepositions 0.81%. The stages in this research begin with collecting information and analyzing needs, designing and making learning materials, and validating them to material experts and media experts. The instrument for collecting data in this study was in the form of an assessment sheet for the validator. The data analysis technique of this research used percentage analysis. The results of the validation test by material experts were 71.42% while media experts were 92.85%. The results of material validation are in the "good" category and the results of media validation are in the "very good" category. So it can be concluded that the learning media developed using Wordtheme is declared valid for use in the Français du Tourisme learning.