The objective of this third year study was to describe the result of the effectiveness testing in the field aided by mobile technology to the draft of dictionary of loan words in Balinese that has been successfully validated by linguists and lexicologists in the second year. This study was designed by following the stages of thinking in research and development adapted from the development of a set of teaching materials using 4-D model (Define, Design, Develop, and Disseminate). The subjects for this third year were Balinese language teachers and the students of Balinese Language Department in the public as well as in private institutes of higher learning in Singaraja and Denpasar. The data were collected through questionnaire The data that had been collected were analyzed by using a descriptive analysis Based on the formulation of the problems in this third year research and data analysis that has successfully been done it can be concluded that quantitatively, the draft of dictionary of loan words in Balinese can be said to be effective since the mean score obtained was 3.6 (falling into effective category). However, qualitatively, there are reasonably many inputs given by the respondents for the purpose of improving the draft of the dictionary. The inputs given are related to the aspects of (1) the appearance, (2) the title of the dictionary, (3) the foreword, (4) the guide to the use of the dictionary, (5) the quality of the contents of the dictionary and (6) bibliography.
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