EXPLORING ESL COLLEGE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ABOUT ENGLISH LANGUAGE TESTS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY

Abstract

English test is an inescapable part of English learning and teaching. It can never be considered a separate domain and discipline. It plays a pivotal role to monitor the performance of the ESL leaners. Valuable perspective of the ESL college learners in the present study about English test is traced to discover the stance of the learners. It dug out the learners’ domain to unearth the challenges and difficulties, the ESL college learners come across. The student participants were 13 college students studying in different classes at college. They were selected on the basis of purposively sampling. The qualitative method, in the present study, was followed. Semi-structured interviews with ESL learners collected a bulk of data. The data analysis paradigm of Braun and Clarke (2006) was used for the data analysis. This indicated several factors that hinder ESL leaners to attempt the English test.