The current study aimed to evaluate university students' technological acceptance and connectedness to online learning with WhatsApp support. A total of 202 students from three different courses at an Indonesian private university participated in an online survey. Quantitative data analyses using Rasch modelling technique were conducted to evaluate the survey data. Findings show that most students accepted social media use to support learning and felt connected to the learning. The findings also have identified several drivers that promoted the high level of acceptance and connectedness to learning, such as students' perceived usefulness, availability of learning support, motivation, and connectedness with their friends. Implications for further research and practices of WhatsApp usage to support online learning are discussed.
This survey explored the level and types of anxiety expressed by Indonesia students in writing in English as a foreign language anxiety across gender and educational levels. To this end, 221 foreign language (FL) students from three levels of educations, i.e. lower-secondary school, upper-secondary school and university, were surveyed on voluntary basis where they were asked to complete 22 items of a Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) questionnaire. Two statistical analyses, Rasch Analysis and ANOVA, were performed to examine the quantitative data. The findings showed that all students experienced writing anxiety in FL learning, many experiencing a moderate level of anxiety. Furthermore, students' writing anxiety was not influenced by gender and educational levels. Indeed, students across all education levels reported experiencing somatic anxiety, avoidance behaviour and cognitive anxiety, with avoidance behaviour being the most common form of anxiety. In conclusion, it is recommended that helping students to develop a positive perception of their FL writing is crucial in addition to helping them develop their writing skills.
Проблема и цель. В настоящем обзоре предпринята попытка изучить восприятие преподавателями и студентами университетов использования социальных сетей для создания аутентичной среды обучения. Методология. С этой целью 249 преподавателей университетов и 329 студентов приняли участие в опросе, в ходе которого им было предложено составить конкуренцию 27 пунктам перечня аутентичной среды обучения в социальных сетях (SOMALEVI). Статистический анализ Rasch с использованием программного обеспечения Winstep был выполнен для оценки ответов как преподавателей, так и студентов.
The current study was aimed to translate and examine the psychometric characteristics of the Indonesian version of Lee and Hsieh's (2019) questionnaire measuring the effects of four affective variables (i.e. self-confidence, L2 anxiety, grit, and motivation) on students' willingness to communicate in face-to-face (F2F) in both inside and outside classrooms, and in a digital environment. Data were collected from 458 students-269 university students, 102 upper secondary school students, and 87 lower secondary school students. Several statistical analyses (i.e. unidimensionality assessment, reliability analysis, misfit analysis, and differential item functioninganalysis) was performed using Rasch analysis. Findings of the study revealed that seven of eight constructs in the Indonesian version of Lee and Hsieh's (2019) questionnaire is valid with Indonesian samples, and they preserve the psychometric characteristics of the original scale. Recommendations are offered in reference to the findings.
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