Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College

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Abstract

The study aimed to identify the perceptions of freshman college students on their used learning communication modalities during distance learning in terms of its interactivity, engagement, accessibility, and its ability to deliver immediate responses. Likewise, it investigated how these communication modalities have contributed to the challenges experienced by the respondents during distance learning and the strategies that they have applied as coping mechanisms. The study utilized a descriptive-quantitative method in gathering the survey data from 222 first year college students of the College of Arts and Sciences of Mariano Marcos State University. The study found that the students do not find the learning communication modalities that they have used during distance learning as not interactive, not too engaging, nor immediate, but is accessible as derived from the analyzed results. The respondents have strong communicative and learning needs and the lack of features that their learning communication modalities offered disabled them to fulfill those needs. The challenges of the students on their used learning communication modalities are heavily influenced by the lack of infrastructure that can support distance learning such as good internet connection, which is the top factor that allowed the participants of distance learning to be able to communicate and interact with each other. In terms of their coping mechanisms, the students utilized other communication modalities such as the ‘Messenger’ application to fulfill their communicative needs because it is low-maintenance, which means that even a weak internet connection can allow them to send messages to their peers and teachers. 

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.56901/DMBD6891

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