The Use of ILearn in Online Indirect Writing Assessment: An investigation into students’ perceptions
- DOI
- 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.274How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- indirect writing; online assessment; students’ perceptions; web-based assessment; web-based learning
- Abstract
Increasingly globalized world which has enabled technology to be integrated in 21st century learning provides a main support for their use in education. This paper examines university students’ perceptions on the use of ILearn; a web-based learning and assessment for indirect writing assessment in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. Prior research regarding the use of some web-based learning and assessment especially in the area of language teaching are reviewed. The issues on writing assessment are noted. The study involved 30 participants consisting of university students from seven different majors in a university in West Sumatera, Indonesia. The data of this descriptive study were collected through open-ended questionnaires. The survey revealed most of students’ positive perceptions on the use ILearn for indirect writing assessment. The analysis clarified the different merits students perceived from the use of ILearn. The variations provided by this web-based learning and assessment design served well in meeting challenges and were fun for them. Most of the participants agreed that writing assessment done through ILearn was much better than paper-based assessment.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- 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 - Delpani Selpia AU - Pupung Purnawarman PY - 2019/06 DA - 2019/06 TI - The Use of ILearn in Online Indirect Writing Assessment: An investigation into students’ perceptions BT - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 307 EP - 310 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.274 DO - 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.274 ID - Selpia2019/06 ER -