学習者の英語ライティング能力の認識 : エッセイの自己評価の分析

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Self-assessment of language learning has some merits such as making students aware of an individual learner's motivations, needs and objectives, and helping students understand autonomous learning. However, one of the problems is that self-evaluation is sometimes inaccurate. In order to help writers, teachers need to understand students' self-assessment of their writing. This study examined 45 Japanese first-year university students' perceptions of their writing ability of English. The research questions of this study are : (1) Is the students' self-assessment of essays accurate ?; (2) Does students' writing ability affect their self-assessment ?; (3) How can findings from students' self-assessment be applied to writing instruction ? The analyses revealed the following findings: (1) The students had more objectivity in assessing essays with more weaknesses than essays with less weaknesses; (2) Good writers tended to under-evaluate, while poor writers tended to over-evaluate their own essays. Implications of this study to EFL writing instruction and suggestions to further research on self-assessment in writing are discussed.
恵泉女学園大学の論文
2003-03-20