Empirical Study of Formative Evaluation in Adult ESL Teaching

Autor/in	Yi, Qin
Titel	Empirical Study of Formative Evaluation in Adult ESL Teaching
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 5 (2012) 2, S.27-38 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Formative Evaluation; English (Second Language); English Language Learners; English Instruction; Adult Students; Questionnaires; Interviews; Case Studies; Control Groups; Experimental Groups; Teaching Methods; Intermode Differences; Instructional Effectiveness; College Students; Educational Practices; Foreign Countries; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Adult; Adults; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Fragebogen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Unterrichtserfolg; Collegestudent; Bildungspraxis; Ausland
Abstract	Formative Evaluation is a method of evaluating a program while the program activities are forming or happening. Formative evaluation focuses on the "process" during which problems are timely spotted, corrected and adjustments made so that an intended goal can be accomplished. Through a four-month empirical research work with students of Grade 2010 of Continuous Education College of Dalian University of Technology as the subjects, the author in this article compares the teaching process and result of the experimental and the controlled groups, discusses the positive effects that formative evaluation gives to learning ESL by adult students while points out some of the problems that exist in this connection. The main purpose of this paper is to examine the degree of effectiveness of formative evaluation as applied in teaching adult students to learn English. The result of the author's research works reveals that the formative evaluation is effective in teaching adult students of English. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01