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| Research Title |
Effects of Self-Assessment on Writing of Thai EFL Students in Different Groups of Learning Styles |
| Date of Distribution |
26 July 2017 |
| Conference |
| Title of the Conference |
5th AASIC: ASIAN Academic Society International Conference: Multidisciplinary Perspective of Local Wisdom |
| Organiser |
Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia for the Kingdom of Thailand, Khon Kaen University, Indonesian Student Association in Thailand (Permitha) |
| Conference Place |
V-wish Hotel Khon Kaen |
| Province/State |
ขอนแก่น |
| Conference Date |
26 July 2017 |
| To |
27 July 2017 |
| Proceeding Paper |
| Volume |
1 |
| Issue |
1 |
| Page |
173-181 |
| Editors/edition/publisher |
Mr. Agianto (AASIC 5th) |
| Abstract |
Effective self-assessment will help language learners to objectively assess and evaluate their writing skills efficiently. It is also realized that the effectiveness of self-assessment of learners is affected by their learning styles. As a result, the purposes of this research were: (1) to explore the preferred learning styles of Thai EFL students, (2) to examine the effects of self-assessment on
writing skills of Thai EFL students in different groups of learning styles, and (3) to examine the attitudes of Thai EFL students in different groups of learning styles towards the use of self-assessment in writing. The participants of this study were 68 second year English major students who enrolled in 411232 English Essay Writing course in the second semester of the academic year 2016 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Khon Kaen University. The research instruments consisted of 1) Felder and
Soloman’s (1991) Index of Learning Styles questionnaire, 2) the essay writing pretest and posttest, 3) the self-assessment checklist,
4) the attitude questionnaire, and 5) the interview. SPSS program was used to figure out the percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test. Content analysis was also employed to analyze the interview. The findings from Index of Learning Styles questionnaire revealed that most of students were Visual learners, followed by Global, Sensing, Active, Reflective, Intuitive, Sequential, and Verbal learners respectively. After participating in self-assessment training, all groups of students with different learning styles could get the posttest score higher than pretest. A group of students who can learn best with Reflective learning styles could get the highest different mean scores between the essay writing posttest, followed by the group of students with Global, Visual, Intuitive, Sensing, Verbal, Active, and Sequential learning styles respectively. Most of students found the self-assessment checklist useful for revising their written work which helps them to point out the strengths and the weaknesses of their own writing. They pointed out that the most useful group of items of the self-assessment checklist is organization (introduction, body, conclusion) while the most difficult group of items to self-assess is grammar and mechanics. However, comparing with self-assessment, most of students were more comfortable about getting feedback from the teacher. As a result, they suggested that self-assessment should be combined with teacher feedback. |
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มีผู้ประเมินอิสระ |
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นานาชาติ |
| Type of Proceeding |
Full paper |
| Type of Presentation |
Oral |
| Part of thesis |
true |
| Presentation awarding |
false |
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