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A CRITICAL REVIEW ON LEARNING TO SELF-ASSESS ORAL PERFORMANCE IN ENGLISH: A LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY, BY YUH-MEI CHEN, (2008)

Fatimah Almutrafi

Volume: 3 Issue: 4 2013

Abstract:

This paper reviews a journal article entitled Learning to self-assess oral performance in English: a longitudinal case study, by Yuh-Mei Chen (2008)1. The article is published in ‘Language Teaching Research’, Volume 12, No. 2, 235-262. This study was carried out in National Chung Cheng University, Chia-yi, in Taiwan. Chen examined her Chinese students’ ability to self-assess their oral performance in English. She compared the students’ self-assessment with the teacher’s assessment and focused on their development. The aim of this paper is to critically review Chen’s article in terms of the positive and negative aspects of the written work. This evaluation is divided into sections in order to cover the different points raised and to assess each part individually.

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