Formative assessment for dealing with fossilization in English as a Foreign language

Assessment and feedback are crucial to evaluating learning activities and ensuring student success. However, traditional summative assessment, focused on grading, limits students' ability to inquire about errors and engage in reflective processes. The formative assessment framework is invaluable in addressing linguistic fossilization, an unconscious process in which language learners persist in making errors. By leveraging formative assessment, educators gain insight into students' language development, empowering them to adapt and rectify persistent errors in their interlanguage development. In a specific case at the "Capitán Edmundo Chiriboga" Educational Unit, specific linguistic challenges faced by students are revealed, which underlines the need for a specific formative assessment strategy. To address these challenges, a research approach that combines qualitative and quantitative methods will be implemented to measure the effectiveness of formative assessment in mitigating linguistic fossilization. The study aims to offer recommendations to both teachers and students to improve the understanding and importance of formative assessment as a tool for continuous improvement. The research will use a mixed research approach, since the objectives involve the analysis of qualitative and quantitative aspects. The techniques will include before and after tests to compare initial and final situations, as well as a feedback section to evaluate the effectiveness of the activities through formative evaluations.

• প্রধান লেখক: Parra Rodríguez, Lilian Anael (author)
• বিন্যাস: bachelorThesis
• প্রকাশিত: 2024
• বিষয়গুলি: Fosilización lingüista; Evaluación formativa; Interlenguaje; Refuerzo
• অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: http://dspace.unach.edu.ec/handle/51000/13285