Incorporating Self-assessment and Reflection in Writing Portfolios of EFL Writers

Tengku Silvana Sinar, Liza Amalia Putri, Dian Marisha Putri

2018

Abstract

Can incorporating self-assessment and reflection as a part of the writing process make EFL students improve their writing? This article presents the findings of a semester-long study conducted at four universities in Medan, North Sumatera where writing portfolio were implemented to help students document their progress. Using pre- and post- test design, it was found that the writing performance of students who used portfolio mainly focusing on incorporating self-assessment and reflection for their essay writing process over a semester more increased than students who did not. The increase of writing performance corresponded to students’ perceptions of improvement in writing. EFL writers who were usually concerned with fixing surface-level errors (mechanics and vocabulary) rather than global errors (organization and content), in this study, were partly concerned with global errors.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sinar T., Putri L. and Putri D. (2018). Incorporating Self-assessment and Reflection in Writing Portfolios of EFL Writers.In Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR, ISBN 978-989-758-449-7, pages 1273-1279. DOI: 10.5220/0010071412731279

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosteerr18,
author={Tengku Silvana Sinar and Liza Amalia Putri and Dian Marisha Putri},
title={Incorporating Self-assessment and Reflection in Writing Portfolios of EFL Writers},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,},
year={2018},
pages={1273-1279},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010071412731279},
isbn={978-989-758-449-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,
TI - Incorporating Self-assessment and Reflection in Writing Portfolios of EFL Writers
SN - 978-989-758-449-7
AU - Sinar T.
AU - Putri L.
AU - Putri D.
PY - 2018
SP - 1273
EP - 1279
DO - 10.5220/0010071412731279