Incorporating Purposeful Assessment Scenarios in L2 Listening Class: A Learner-Oriented Approach
الموضوعات : All areas of language and translation
Elham Ghorbanpour
1
,
Gholam-Reza Abbasian
2
,
Ahmad Mohseni
3
1 - Department of English Language, Kish International Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kish Island, Iran
2 - Department of English Language, Kish International Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kish Island, Kish, Iran; Imam Ali University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of English Language Teaching, Kish International Branch, Islamic Azad
University, Kish Island, Iran; South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University Tehran, Iran
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ملخص المقالة :
This study investigated the effect of purposeful assessment scenarios, Assessment for Learning (AFL), Assessment as Learning (AAL), and integrated purposeful assessment scenarios on Iranian EFL learners’ development of listening comprehension. To this end, 100 learners organized in three experimental and one control group participated in this quasi-experimental study. They received listening instructions of the mentioned purposeful assessment forms. Parametric statistical analysis in the form of some one-way ANOVAs revealed thatEFL learners exposed to integrated assessment could significantly develop their listening comprehension better than the AFL- and AAL-oriented instruction groups. However, no significant difference between AAL- and AFL-oriented groups’ listening comprehension was obtained. Though the findings are not in favor of any of the individual scenarios, they lend support to their feasibility in classroom performance assessment and assert the usefulness and viability of the synthetic approach to assessment through which measurement and instruction are bifurcated.
