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Adult Learners’ Perceptions of a Blog-based Assessment in an English as a Second Language Course

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dc.contributor.author Embogama, R. M. S. N.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-17T04:12:27Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-17T04:12:27Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.citation Embogama R. M. S. N. (2022), Adult Learners’ Perceptions of a Blog-based Assessment in an English as a Second Language Course, 7th International Conference on Advances in Technology and Computing (ICATC 2022), Faculty of Computing and Technology, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka. Page 85 – 89. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/25984
dc.description.abstract This study was conducted in order to gather adult learners’ perceptions on the use of blogs for assessing their English writing skills in terms of the perceived benefits, drawbacks, and technical constraints. Being a case study, the research involved a group of adult ESL learners following an English proficiency course at the undergraduate level in a state university in Sri Lanka. It was conducted by using a survey-type questionnaire shared with the purposive sample of year one arts undergraduates who were in the second semester of study. Descriptive statics were used for data tabulation and percentages were generated to decipher the sample’s reaction to a blog-based assessment given to them during the first semester of study. The findings from the data analysis indicate that these students perceived blogs as a valid, acceptable, and beneficial form of assessment that can also improve and motivate them to write in the second language. However, they also admitted that challenges remain when authoring blogs, such as poor bandwidth and lack of connectivity, difficulty in understanding instructions on creating blog accounts, having their content plagiarized, and technical constraints. From the findings, there is a suggestion to first promote the use of blog entries to assess students’ writing skills as a continued practice and second to formulate strategies to counteract the challenges. To sum up, the main findings reveal that in spite of some difficulties, these ESL learners had a highly positive attitude towards the use of blog-based assessments for testing their English writing skills. en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Computing and Technology, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject blog-based assessments, computer-assisted language learning, testing writing skills, writing proficiency en_US
dc.title Adult Learners’ Perceptions of a Blog-based Assessment in an English as a Second Language Course en_US


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