TY  - JOUR
T1  - THE IMPACT OF LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN LANGUAGE EXAMS
AU  - Akay, Emel
AU  - Koral Gumusoglu, Eylem
PY  - 2020
DA  - October
DO  - 10.17718/tojde.803410
JF  - Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
JO  - TOJDE
PB  - Anadolu University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1302-6488
SP  - 206
EP  - 222
VL  - 21
IS  - 4
LA  - en
AB  - The use of technology in or beyond classrooms has created a stupendous paradigm to bring down theclassroom walls and open up for new and unique learning opportunities. With the plethora of materialsand rich learning object repositories, LMSs gripped attention of many educational institutions in differentlevels. Although LMS has been heralded as a great platform to support learning, the impact of it onstudent achievement has always been under question. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigatethe relationship between university students’ achievement in an English preparatory program and the useof LMS in language learning process. In a mixed-method design, quantitative data were collected from 321students in the School of Foreign Languages, and qualitative data were gathered from interviews with 30randomly selected students. The results revealed that the use of LMS had a much greater impact on midtermexams than the proficiency exam although it had an effect on both. The analyses of the interviews indicatedthat participants had mostly positive attitudes towards the use of LMS as they thought it contributed to theirlanguage learning processes.
KW  - LMS
KW  - language
KW  - EFL
KW  - ELT
KW  - exam
KW  - achievement
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.17718/tojde.803410
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/1321353
ER  -