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- Title
A Survey on EFL Teachers' Assessment Methods in Entry-Level Writing Courses in Technological Universities in Taiwan.
- Authors
Cheryl Wei-yu Chen
- Abstract
How writing teachers conduct their assessment is an important but under-researched topic in the field of language assessment. By partly adopting Cheng et al.'s (2004) survey, this mail survey study aims to fill this gap by examining how tertiary-level EFL writing teachers assess their students in basic English writing classes in Taiwan. The results indicate that the most frequently used method was paragraph writing (84%), followed by editing a piece of writing such as a sentence or a paragraph (64%), essay writing (40%), and peer assessment (36%). Teachers were also found to use an eclectic mix of methods when assessing their students, and large-scale projects such as student portfolios were used by about a quarter of the participants. The results of this study offer a glimpse into teachers' classroom assessment methods for entry-level EFL writing courses. It is hoped that more research efforts would be carried out to further our understanding of teachers' assessment methods.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; STUDY &; teaching of paragraphs; ENGLISH language writing; RATING of students; ENGLISH as a foreign language; STUDENT projects; EDUCATION
- Publication
Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2016, Vol 20, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
1345-8353
- Publication type
Article