M-Learning: Promoting language assessment through video recording

Abstract

M-Learning (mobile learning) is an important mean of self-learning. This paper points out that it is necessary to combine traditional guidance teaching and learning assessment, as M-learning can improve and enrich traditional assessment content. To implement personalized education, this paper further puts forward the magnitude of establishing the learning-growth evaluation system through M-learning, as the learning-growth evaluation helps the language instructor to analyse the mobile learning assessment outcome. The learning-growth evaluation should be designed around the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domain. Through the assessment of learning-growth, the educators obtain students’ learning credits through data analysis, which unveil their learning preferences and unobserved areas, from where personalized learning can be piloted to. The research design for this study is a descriptive survey using convenience sampling. 40 Semester One students from Diploma in Digital Technology of Politeknik Besut Terengganu were chosen. They were divided into 10 groups of 4 respectively and instructed to work on a role-playing project using mobile technologies for 3 weeks. There is no specific online video applications was selected as a platform for the study. Students are free to choose any free available video editing applications from the browser. The data were analysed using the percentage mean. The finding reported that M-learning produced positive impacts to both students and language instructors. Moreover, based on these analysis data, future education resources can be restructured.