Using LMS “Elsakti’ as an Effective Assessment Medium for English EFL Learning

Abstract

This study was carried out to seek information on the roles of Elsakti as a medium of assessment in English EFL learning focusing on the opportunities and challenges perceived by EFL learners. It employed a case study research using the interview to obtain in-depth and detailed information from the participants. Six EFL learners of Universitas Pancasakti Tegal were involved in this study conducting telephone interviews. This result reveals that Elskti has been found to support digitalization where students as well lecturers have higher chances to optimally use digital tools to help them work with assignments and other work more effectively and efficiently. Its features also have essential roles as a medium of assessment in language teaching as they facilitated the creation of a fun learning environment, practicality, automated scoring, and direct feedback. The findings of this study also designate that Elsakti is powerful and potential to be utilized to implement formative assessment more often since it plays important roles in the EFL learning and teaching process, including formative assessment. Meanwhile, the challenges perceived by participating learners in this study were majorly related to the technical problems that the learners did not encounter often or at every meeting.