Roles of Assessment

Alia Hana
Umi Ain Husna
Jing Xin
Zhi Qian
Xuan Wei
Explain the role of assessment in the language classroom:

(a) Assessing young learners for learning

 1. Provide feedback for the pupils.
- Pupils know their strengths and weaknesses.
- Pupils are provided constructive feedback on how to improve themselves.

2. Boost pupils’ motivation.

- Pupils see their progress and work more harder.

3. Increase pupils’ comfort zone

- Decreasing of level of anxiety generated by concentration on linguistic accuracy.

4. Make learning visible

- Help young learners understand more accurately the nature of material they are
learning
- Help young learners identify the criteria of quality work and how to adjust their
performance.

5. Encourage self-reflection

- Feedbacks from the assessment can help young learners to reflect on their learning
and improve themselves.
- Pupils are able to plan their future study activity to improve on their weakness.
 References
Cambridge Assessment International Education. (2017). Retrieved from
https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/Images/271179-assessment-for-learning.pdf

Jones, C. A. (2005). Assessment for learning. Retrieved from

https://dera.ioe.ac.uk/7800/1/AssessmentforLearning.pdf

Kassim. (2001). Assessment for young learners. Retrieved from

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234709045_Assessment_of_Young_Learners