Self-assessment impact on EFL learners’ speaking fluency and accuracy: Does level of proficiency matter?

Since the 1970s, self-assessment in education has gained increasing currency and has been studied in a considerable number of quantitative studies. In line with this theoretical and experimental background, this study aimed at investigating the effect of self-assessment on intermediate and upper-int...

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Main Authors: Goodarz Alibakhshi, Abdullah Sarani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Teaching English Language and Literature Society of Iran (TELLSI) 2014-12-01
Series:Teaching English Language
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Online Access:http://www.teljournal.org/article_53820_c2b8ea61d9e8a4a99df9104e042f33b9.pdf
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description Since the 1970s, self-assessment in education has gained increasing currency and has been studied in a considerable number of quantitative studies. In line with this theoretical and experimental background, this study aimed at investigating the effect of self-assessment on intermediate and upper-intermediate language learners’ speaking fluency and accuracy in Iran. Thirty pre-intermediate and thirty upper-intermediate students participated in the study in a pretest-posttest control/experimental group design. The data were analyzed through ANCOVA test. The results indicated that self-assessment positively affected participants’ speaking accuracy and fluency. Also, self-assessment had a greater effect on upper-intermediate learners than pre-intermediate ones. Moreover, speaking fluency benefitted more from self-assessment than speaking accuracy did. The findings can be applied by both EFL learners and teachers.
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Self-assessment impact on EFL learners’ speaking fluency and accuracy: Does level of proficiency matter?
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self-assessment
speaking accuracy
speaking fluency
iranian efl learners
title Self-assessment impact on EFL learners’ speaking fluency and accuracy: Does level of proficiency matter?
title_full Self-assessment impact on EFL learners’ speaking fluency and accuracy: Does level of proficiency matter?
title_fullStr Self-assessment impact on EFL learners’ speaking fluency and accuracy: Does level of proficiency matter?
title_full_unstemmed Self-assessment impact on EFL learners’ speaking fluency and accuracy: Does level of proficiency matter?
title_short Self-assessment impact on EFL learners’ speaking fluency and accuracy: Does level of proficiency matter?
title_sort self assessment impact on efl learners speaking fluency and accuracy does level of proficiency matter
topic self-assessment
speaking accuracy
speaking fluency
iranian efl learners
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