Ensuring Viable Solutions in Resource-Constrained Language Teaching Settings: ESL Learners Perceptions about Computer-Assisted Language Testing (CALT)

Riaz Hussain, Muhammad Sumair Zahid and Youshaib Alam

Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies, 2021, vol. 3, issue 4, 509-519

Abstract: Purpose: Across the globe, organizations operating in testing services have made optimum use of this technology and seem to have won greater trust and confidence of the test-takers. The purpose of the current study was to explore the perceptions of ESL learners about Computer-Assisted Language Testing (CALT). It further aimed to investigate the challenges and problems learners encounter during the test.Design/Methodology/Approach: The current study had two phases: CALT test and a questionnaire-based survey. In the first phase, the researchers designed and conducted a CALT test to give learners some exposure of CALT. With a quantitative approach, the researchers in the current study designed, piloted and administered a close-ended questionnaire to collect data about learners’ perceptions about CALT.Findings: The results revealed that the learners had positive perceptions about CALT. Some learners encountered challenges while practicing in CALT. Around 80% of the learners thought CALT was adequate in assessing the English language proficiency of the learners and that it was compatible with the existing circumstances.Implications/Originality/Value: In Pakistan, insufficient number of studies seemed to have been done by the researcher. The current study fills the existing gap.

Keywords: Teaching English in Resource-constrained setting; Testing & Evaluation; Language proficiency test; Computer-Assisted Language Testing (CALT) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://publishing.globalcsrc.org/ojs/index.php/sbsee/article/view/2052/1276 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:src:sbseec:v:3:y:2021:i:4:p:509-519

DOI: 10.26710/sbsee.v3i4.2052

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies from CSRC Publishing, Center for Sustainability Research and Consultancy Pakistan Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Dr Rana Muhammad Adeel Farooq ().