How the EFL Teachers’ View of Their Language Assessment Literacy?

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10.2991/978-2-38476-166-1_22How to use a DOI?

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Teachers’ View; Language Assessment Literacy; Principles of Language Assessment

ABSTRACT

As a great important part of language teaching and learning, assessment enables the teachers to acquire the information related to the process of students’ learning that allows them to make decisions for their future instructional practices. In consequence, the language teachers need to be proficient in assessment literacy. Language assessment literacy (LAL) is the combination of the teachers’ knowledge and skill in order to apply the procedures and principles of language assessment. Thus, this paper is aimed to investigate the senior high school EFL teachers’ language assessment literacy practices in constructing the language assessment. Twenty-four senior high school teachers were involved in this study, then they were asked to fill the questionnaire from five indicators with thirty-one items regarding to their practices in applying the principles of language assessment to the teacher-made tests. Descriptive statistic was used in order to analyze the data with the help of SPSS 17 for the windows program. The result showed that the teachers’ practices in applying the principles of language assessment literacy were categorized into “very high level” which was proved by 85% of the teachers perceived that they have applied the principles of language assessment to teacher-made test. It means that the language teachers are able to understand the concept of language assessment, enhance their instructional practices, use the knowledge in practice, and comprehend how the test can help their students to improve the students’ learning.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Desta Wulandari
AU  - Hamzah Hamzah
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/12/30
TI  - How the EFL Teachers’ View of Their Language Assessment Literacy?
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 154
EP  - 160
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-166-1_22
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-166-1_22
ID  - Wulandari2023
ER  -