Teacher's Perception of Mobile Game-Based Assessment in ELT Context

Abstract

Mobile-based assessment is one of the ways that can be applied to English teachers to produce a good teaching-learning process in the English Language Teaching (ELT) context. In this era, the use of technology has created new possibilities. In this digital era, the students need to have significant exposure to digital media in the teaching-learning process. The perception of the teacher about mobile game-based assessment in ELT context may influence and affect the mobile game-based assessment implication in ELT context. The goal of this study is to investigate the teacher's perception of mobile-based assessment in the ELT context. The design of this study is qualitative research. This research involved ten English teachers from ten different senior high schools in Riau province and the data collected through semi-structured individual interviews, which was designed to obtain teacher perception of mobile game-based assessment in ELT context. After the data analysis, it found that the ten English teachers have positive perceptions toward mobile-based assessment but still need improvement. The research also showed that all of the ten teachers were aware that their role when using new technologies in education has changed, but because of the lack of necessary training, they were not clear on how to adopt these changes. The findings also revealed that they still do not know more about the mobile-based assessment and not too familiar with it.

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