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Download full textAli Alshammari, Hammad – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
The purpose of this research was to investigate the current practices of assessing L2 reading skills of Saudi EFL elementary stage learners. The research also attempted to offer more effective assessment tools of L2 reading skills than the current ones. For this purpose, a sample of (30) elementary stage EFL classes were observed, and (15)…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Elementary School Students
Gursoy, Esim; Bag, Hatice Kübra – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
In the light of continuous change of global perspectives, current educational contexts have been evolving to cover the necessary 21st century skills that the individuals must acquire. Two of the 4Cs (creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication) of the 21st century educational trends; creativity and creative thinking are the key…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sinambela, Seftirina Evina – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The prosodic features in reading aloud assignment has been associated with the students' decoding skill. The goal of the present study is to determine the reliability of prosody for assessing reading fluency of adult ESL students in Indonesia context. The participants were all Indonesian natives, undergraduate students, adult females and males who…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Reading Fluency, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Hanifi, Sepideh; Nasiri, Mahdi; Aliasin, Hesamuddin – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Dynamic assessment (DA), stemmed from both Vygotsky's (1978) learning theory and Feuerstein's (1979) theory of mediated learning experiences, is an alternative to static assessment. It focuses on both instruction and assessment aiming at promoting learning through mediation. DA has been widely researched in different linguistic areas, but there is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, English for Special Purposes, Pretests Posttests
Salimi, Asghar; Larsari, Vahid Nowrozi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Nowadays, the function of language teaching and testing has been paid much attention by researchers. There is an overall notion in the literature that motivation, as driving force, is one of the likely learners' traits. The aim of this study was to examine the comparative impact of self-assessment and teacher-assessment on learners' academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Zohrabi, Mohammad; Shah, Parilah M.; Yunus, Melor M. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2012
English for General Purposes (EGP) is a foundation course which should be taken by all the undergraduate students at the University of Tabriz, Iran. However, the EGP course cannot meet the students' objectives and needs. Evidently, it has some shortcoming and the results of the study indicate that it not only has lost its credibility but also has…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yamini, Morteza; Tahmasebi, Soheila – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2012
Salient in an EFL teaching context is students' dissatisfaction with their final scores especially in oral courses. This study tried to bridge the gap between students' and teachers' rating system through alternatives to existing measurement methods. Task-based language assessment has stimulated language teachers to question the way through which…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Peer Evaluation, Reading Comprehension, Majors (Students)
