ERIC Number: EJ1051567
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Oct
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1657-0790
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The Impact of Conferencing Assessment on EFL Students' Grammar Learning (Impacto de la evaluación mediante conferencias en el aprendizaje de la gramática en estudiantes de inglés como lengua extranjera)
Baleghizadeh, Sasan; Zarghami, Zahra
PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, v14 n2 p131-144 Oct 2012
This article reports on a study that was carried out in order to examine the impact of conferencing assessment on students' learning of English grammar. Forty-two Iranian intermediate university students were randomly assigned to an experimental and a control group. The participants in the experimental group took part in four individual and four whole class conferences. The participants in the control group studied the same grammatical points but they were not involved in conferencing assessment. The results of the study showed that the experimental group performed significantly better than the control group on the given post-test. Moreover, the attitudes of the participants toward grammar learning in the experimental group significantly changed from the first administration of a questionnaire to its second administration.
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Experimental Groups, Grammar, Student Attitudes, Questionnaires, College Students, Control Groups, Alternative Assessment, Teacher Student Relationship, Language Tests, Pretests Posttests, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Iran
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Test of English as a Foreign Language
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