SELF-ASSESSMENT OF LANGUAGE SKILLS AND EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE IN ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES CLASSROOMS

Authors

  • Irena Darginaviciene Klaipeda University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17770/sie2017vol3.2354

Keywords:

English for Specific Purposes, formal testing, self-evaluation

Abstract

Although evaluation has been increasingly used in education for a long time, attention to evaluation and its uses in English language teaching is relatively recent. Essentially, evaluation may be carried out to determine if the students achieved a certain level of language proficiency. Recently self-evaluation of language skills has been used to find out how students assess their accomplishments in language learning. On the other hand, formal testing is the most common way to measure achievement and proficiency in language learning that teachers conduct during an academic year. Formal testing is considered to be an effective tool that can help teachers identify students’ strengths and weaknesses and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching. This article focuses on student’s perceptions of success in learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and formal evaluation of their performance in class activities. The methods of the research include the administration of the designed questionnaire, analysis of students’ responses and their statistical treatment by a means of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 19). The self-evaluation data are compared with the results of formal testing. The conclusions are drawn on the merits of self-evaluation in learning ESP.

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Author Biography

  • Irena Darginaviciene, Klaipeda University
    IRENA DARGINAVICIENE was born in Lithuania and graduated from Vilnius University where she studied English Philology. In 1987 she defended PhD thesis at Moscow M. Torez Institute of Foreign Languages and started to work as a lecturer at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute. Currently she is Head of European Languages Department at Klaipeda University. Her research interests cover English language teaching methodology, Comparative linguistics, Phenomenology and foreign language learning areas. Her email address is: irena.darginaviciene@ku.lt

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Published

2017-05-26

How to Cite

Darginaviciene, I. (2017). SELF-ASSESSMENT OF LANGUAGE SKILLS AND EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE IN ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES CLASSROOMS. SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference, 3, 601-614. https://doi.org/10.17770/sie2017vol3.2354