10 Portfolio Assessment Advantages in ESL Classes
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LELB Society 274 دنبال کننده 10 portfolio assessment advantages in second language learning and ESL classes, including critical thinking and learner autonomy Author: Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl Abstract These days, EFL/ESL learning and/or teaching have become so mechanical. Language learners do lack adequate autonomy, consciousness, and critical thinking. On the contrary, they have a tendency towards or have become accustomed to a teacher-centered approach to language learning. That is to say, the learners are, most of the time, language consumers without making enough, if not any, attempts to become more critically active and participatory in the process of language learning. To conduct the study, the researcher used his 184 website members at LELB Society as the participants in a lengthy course of distance learning lasting around three months. In this process-oriented, qualitative case study, the upper-intermediate participants were encouraged to maximize ‘critical thinking’ by means of ‘portfolio assessment’. The data were collected from an open-ended questionnaire that was sent to the participants via email at the end of the course. After analyzing the data, it became clear that critical thinking that is brought forth through portfolio assessment does help the learners to become more conscious, autonomous, and independent in the process of language learning. Introduction If you develop your ability to analyze people’s attempts to persuade so that you can accurately interpret what they are saying or writing and evaluate whether or not they are giving a good argument – whether, for instance, they are providing you with a good reason to believe that foxhunting should be banned – then you can begin to liberate yourself from unquestioningly accepting what others try to persuade you of without knowing whether you have a good reason to be persuaded (Bowell Kemp, 2002).