Impacts of Mobile-Assisted Language Assessment (MALA) on EFL Students’ Beliefs About Language Learning (BALL)
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.089How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Beliefs About Language Learning (BALL), English as Foreign Language (EFL), Mobile-Assisted Language Assessment (MALA)
- Abstract
Based on 21st-century learning framework, in order to support the students’ skills, knowledge and expertise, assessment becomes one of the critical systems necessary that should be mastered to succeed in work and life. At the same time, new assessment mode has been developed during the time since the wireless technologies such as personal mobile electronic devices are used in assessment procedures. Under this scope, this qualitative case study aims to investigate the impacts of using a Mobile-Assisted Language Assessment (MALA) application (WhatsApp) on Indonesian EFL students’ Beliefs About Language Learning (BALL) in the Indonesian context. The open-ended questions and focus group interview were used to collect the data. The findings reveal that students have positive opinions towards the usage of mobile devices and applications for assessment and evaluation in an online classroom setting and changed their BALL. The results of the study contribute to a future study that concerns with mobile-assisted language assessment issue in the English language teaching field in Indonesia.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Raden Hasby Isnaindy Fasa AU - Pupung Purnawarman PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/17 TI - Impacts of Mobile-Assisted Language Assessment (MALA) on EFL Students’ Beliefs About Language Learning (BALL) BT - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 573 EP - 579 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.089 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.089 ID - Fasa2020 ER -