Classroom-based language efficiency assessment: a challenge for EFL teachers

• Authors: Aleksandra Wach
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

This paper attempts to highlight the significant multidimensional role of teachers of English as a foreign language in conducting language assessment in the process of teaching. The study presented in the article aimed to investigate school and university EFL teachers’ (n=87) beliefs about the place of assessment in their teaching practice and their role as assessors. The findings indicated that classroom assessment, though appreciated by the study participants, posed a major challenge to them.

Keywords

PL

Language assessment; Teacher assessment; Teachers’ beliefs; Teacher as assessor

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Glottodidactica
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 81-92

Dates

published

2012-01-01

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Wach

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/gl.2012.39.1.8