The Attitude of Hotel Department Students towards Learning English in Relation to their Learning Strategies and Achievement in Indonesian Context

AbstractThis study aims to investigate the computerized assessment of English learners’ writing ability in the writing tests in view of the use of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) for Vietnamese learners of English as a foreign language (Vietnamese EFL learners) in Vietnam. It explores the possibility of using computers to assess learners’ writing abilities to prepare language learners for the standardized tests through the analysis of data from the posttests and the theoretical interpretation of second language acquisition (SLA). The focus of the study was on a survey of intermediate level students of English taking writing posttests at a Vietnamese university. The writing tests were collected, scored and categorized into fivepoint levels. The results of the study showed the statistical significance for the writing tests (p