Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Yan, Lili
• Li, Liwen
• Sun, Youzhong
• Cai, Hong

Titel

Final Paper as Portfolio: An Academic Writing Assessment for Incipient College Student Writers from Large Classes

Ist Teil von

• Asian Research on English for Specific Purposes, 2020, p.251-267

Ort / Verlag

Singapore: Springer Singapore Pte. Limited

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Writing is the core competency in overall EAP assessment. Chinese private college undergraduates lack incentives and involvement in academic writing tasks. One cause of their anxiety is the dual challenge of learning the language and its academic writing conventions. There is a need for an integrated writing assessment that facilitates the abundant language practice and practice of writing conventions. The application of portfolio assessment in academic writing has been proved as an impetus to writing practice. However, there are gaps between the gaining popularity of portfolio assessment and its lesser-researched application to incipient academic writing learners, and its feasibility in large classes. This chapter describes a complete process of writing assessment in the portfolio-based classroom that supports the use of students’ final academic paper as their writing portfolio. It presents how the writing assessment is modified to facilitate both language practice and writing activities that are intended to help improve class involvement and confidence in writing. Results show the feasibility of the portfolio assessment and indicate the improvement in confidence, involvement, self-assessment awareness, and overall learner identity formation. The findings have pedagogical implications that portfolio-based classroom is successful as the driving force of learning and in addressing the private college students’ learning difficulties vis-a-vis EAP writing task.