Evaluation of CALL Materials for EFL Students at KMUTT, Thailand

Abstract

This article presents an evaluation on the effectiveness of a computer assisted language learning (CALL)material çHow to deal with tensesé which was designed as self-access supplementary and remedial exercises forstudents at King Mongkut,s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) Thailand. The study was quasiexperimentalone-group with pre-test post-test. The subjects in this study were 60 volunteers who were undergraduateand graduate students from several faculties in the university. They were divided into 3 groups with 20volunteers in each group. The data was collected from 2 parallel proficiency tests before and after studying thematerial and from a set of questionnaires asking for their comments on the CALL material. Results of the studyshowed that the learner proficiency increased significantly at 0.05 level. The correlation coefficient between thepre-test and the post-test scores was 0.78, which was significant at 0.01. This indicates that this CALL materialis effective in increasing the learner,s proficiency in using English tenses and most students indicated that thematerial was appropriate, interesting and very useful. As a result, more self-access CALL materials should becreated and developed for KMUTT students.