A First Approach to the Analysis of Student Motivation in the Trial Version of the Computer Based University Entrance Examination

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Foreign Countries; Interaction; Spanish; College Entrance Examinations; High School Students; Likert Scales; Verbal Tests; Student Motivation; Student Attitudes; Questionnaires; Computer Assisted Testing; Internet; Information Technology; Higher Education; College Bound Students

This paper investigates whether students would be reluctant to do the oral tasks of the Computer Based University Entrance Examination (P.A.U.) in Spain. So far in the Spanish history of education never a foreign language high stakes task has been included in any of the versions of the P.A.U. 60 students took the oral task of the P.A.U. which consisted in speaking freely for two minutes as a response to an audiovisual prompt. Students not only responded adequately to the question but also stated that they were more motivated to speak in front of a computer than in a human-to-human interaction. Possible explanations are also provided in the paper. (Contains 1 figure and 1 table.) [This paper was published in: The Proceedings of the CALL Conference (14th, Antwerp, Belgium, August 18-20, 2010). University of Antwerp. p84-87.]

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