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Using Classroom Assessment Techniques to Improve Foreign Language Composition Courses
Author(s) -
Carduner Jessie
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2002.tb02722.x
Subject(s) - formative assessment , mathematics education , grammar , composition (language) , teaching method , focus on form , computer science , foreign language , focus (optics) , psychology , language assessment , pedagogy , linguistics , philosophy , physics , optics
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are formative assessment tools that require, essentially, knowledge of one's discipline and a clear desire to increase student learning. CATs can assist instructors and students in setting realistic goals for a course and in shifting the focus of instruction from teaching to learning. Although the examples described in this article are from a Spanish grammar and composition course, the techniques presented may be adapted for use in nearly any second language course.