scholarly journals The Instructional Efficacy of Strategy-based Instruction via Electronic Portfolio Assessment in Improving Reading Proficiency of Iranian Intermediate EFL Students

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramin Vaezi ◽  
Mansoor Koosha
Keyword(s):  
Portfolio Assessment ◽  
Reading Proficiency ◽  
Electronic Portfolio ◽  
Instructional Efficacy ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Based Instruction

scholarly journals The Role of Inquiry Based Learning to Improve Reading Comprehension of EFL Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
' Ermawati
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
English Education ◽  
Reading Proficiency ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Inquiry Based Learning ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Efl Students

Approaches in reading have widely emerged to fulfill the needs of learners to comprehend a text and to change their reading habit which is one of them is Inquiry Based Learning (IBL). Thus, this study aims to identify the role of Inquiry Based Learning to improve reading comprehension. The design of this study was mixed method with QUAN-qual model. The quantitative method used quasi-experimental design with control and experimental group including pre-test and post-test. It used purposive sampling technique to determine the samples who involved 40 students; 19 students in control class and 21 students in experimental class. This study was conducted at third semester students of English Education Department of STKIP Muhammadiyah Sidrap. The data were gained through test and non-test (questionnaire and interview). Then, the data were analyzed through SPSS 22. The significant findings of the recent study was the roles of IBL; developing students’ reading proficiency, engaging the students with complex texts, practicing students’ all levels of comprehension as they take a part in IBL phases,activating students prior knowledge, aligning inquiry process to students’ reading comprehension, providing students to work with team and enhancing students’ learning process. Finally, this study could be implemented practically and pedagogically in the study of IBL.

scholarly journals Using portfolio assessment to improve EFL students’ expository-writing performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Waode Nur Gita Dahviyanti
Keyword(s):  
Expository Text ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Portfolio Assessment ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Expository Writing ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Positive Motivation

The objectives of the research were to find out the extent to which the use of portfolio assessment improves EFL students’ performances in expository-writing and to find out the students’ responses about the taking of portfolio assessment in improving their performance in writing expository text. The researcher applied classroom action research which was done through two cycles. The location of this research was at one of the secondary schools in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. There were 31 students as a sample in this research and the data were collected using observation, writing test, interview, and analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The result showed that portfolio assessment had improved EFL students’ expository-writing performance. The students were better in arranging the words into sentences and paragraph in order to convey their ideas, opinions, and feeling because they had already known the steps in the writing process, and they learned from their previous evaluated portfolios, and their responses on the using of portfolio assessment as a method in writing expository process was positive. They got positive motivation and appreciation to progress their writing performance. They were excited to revise and edit their draft to become the best work in every meeting.

The Pitfalls and Promises of Electronic Portfolio Assessment With Secondary English Language Learners

2018 ◽  
pp. 111-130
Author(s):  
Hyesun Cho
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Portfolio Assessment ◽  
Electronic Portfolio ◽  
Secondary English ◽  
Hybrid Identities ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Language Classrooms

This chapter discusses the pitfalls and promises of electronic portfolio assessment for English language learners in high school classrooms in the United States. In a three-year federally funded program designed to improve academic performance among culturally and linguistically diverse students at an urban high school in Honolulu, Hawaii, the author implemented electronic portfolio assessment (EPA) into academic English and heritage language classrooms. This chapter delineates how EPA was developed to enhance academic and linguistic abilities of adolescent ELLs while embracing their multifaceted and hybrid identities. It also presents both challenges and benefits that teachers and students experienced in the process of EPA. It concludes with suggestions for developing and implementing EPA for English language learners in similar contexts.

scholarly journals EFL Students’ Perception of Using Portfolio Assessment in the Writing Classroom: the Case of Libyan Undergraduate Second Year Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Hameda Suwaed
Keyword(s):  
Portfolio Assessment ◽  
Writing Classroom ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Writing Courses ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Second Year

The aim of this study is to investigate EFL second year students’ perception towards using portfolio assessment in their writing courses. It has also intended to find out exam preference of the participants. The participants of the study are 38Libyan EFL students enrolled in second year in the Department of English. Data was collected by using a questionnaire, students’ portfolios and semi-structured interviews with the 8 participants. The results indicate that the participants generally prefer to be evaluated by the portfolio assessment. Most of them believed that portfolio assessment improved their writing and enhanced their motivation. However, some participants prefer traditional paper and pen tests.

scholarly journals Investigation the Effect of Colloconstructural Corpus-based Instruction on Pragmalinquistic Knowledge of Request Speech Act: Evidence from Iranian EFL Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Batoul Sabzalipour ◽  
Mansour Koosha ◽  
Akbar Afghari
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Placement Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Mazandaran Province ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
On Line ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Methods Of Learning ◽  
Experimental Group

The current study investigated the effect of using colloconstructional corpus-based instruction on enhancing the pragmalinguistic knowledge of speech acts of request among intermediate EFL learners. The fundamental idea was that whether providing students with on-line corpora through using colloconstruction had any effects on enhancing their pragmalinguistic knowledge of request speech act. In such doing, 60 intermediate-level subjects from several institutions in Mazandaran province, in Iran, participated in the study. Then, the subjects took a standard Oxford Placement Test (OPT) to demonstrate their English proficiency. Based on the obtained scores, they were randomly administered as two equal groups (N=30). A WDCT pre- test was conducted in each group to examine their ability and knowledge in using speech acts of request.  After 15 sessions of treatment, a WDCT posttest was conducted. The experimental group received corpus-based instruction through colloconstructional practices. In contrast, the control group only practiced learning the same speech act through traditional and old methods of learning speech acts like textbooks, audios and videos. The data were analyzed using paired and independent sample t- test. To boost the results validity, the researcher used observation and interview, too. The results revealed that speech act learning was enhanced by corpus-based instruction. Some theoretical and pedagogical implications of the study were then presented. 

Electronic Portfolios and Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 3200-3213
Author(s):  
S. M. Hewett
Keyword(s):  
Student Teacher ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Portfolio Assessment ◽  
Electronic Portfolio ◽  
Electronic Portfolios ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts

The use of electronic portfolios for students as an assessment tool is explored in this chapter. Portfolios have expanded from use in the arts and humanities to the field of education. Teachers, administrators, and students understand the benefits of portfolio assessment. The age of technology has improved the use of portfolio assessment by allowing the portfolio information to be transmitted and shared worldwide. No longer are portfolios limited to the single assessment of one person. Based on the current literature on electronic portfolios, the simplicity of creating electronic portfolios, the efficiency of collecting and organizing massive amounts of work, the ease of worldwide transmission of portfolio material, and the promotion of candidate-centered (student-, teacher-, professor-centered) assessment through the use of e-portfolios, the author hopes to promote the electronic portfolio as a beneficial way for the student, teacher, and professor to highlight their achievements for assessment.

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