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Direct writing assessment as a basis for teaching and learning in ESL classrooms in Malaysian secondary schools

It is very important for ESL teachers to teach and provide feedback about their students’ performances in directed writing, summary writing and essay writing, which are given in the secondary school exit examination in Malaysia. This paper looks into how three ESL teachers assessed essay writing aft...

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Main Authors:	Othman, Normah, Chan, Swee Heng
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Research Academy of Social Sciences 2014
Subjects:	LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
Online Access:	http://repo.uum.edu.my/22118/1/IJMS%203%201%202014%2056%2064.pdf http://repo.uum.edu.my/22118/ http://www.rassweb.com/wp-content/uploads/PDF/IJMS/Vol-3/Issue-1/Paper%205.pdf
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spelling	my.uum.repo.221182017-06-04T03:45:54Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/22118/ Direct writing assessment as a basis for teaching and learning in ESL classrooms in Malaysian secondary schools Othman, Normah Chan, Swee Heng LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools It is very important for ESL teachers to teach and provide feedback about their students’ performances in directed writing, summary writing and essay writing, which are given in the secondary school exit examination in Malaysia. This paper looks into how three ESL teachers assessed essay writing after teaching their students to write. An observation of how these teachers gave feedback to their students after assessing their writing was conducted.Each of the teachers was given one of these scoring methods to assess their students’ writing: holistic scoring method, analytic scoring method and primary trait scoring method.It was found that each scoring method provided a different basis for giving feedback to the students.This is because each scoring method looks at different aspects of the students’ writing performance.This paper discusses the differences found in the feedback lessons given by these three ESL teachers. Research Academy of Social Sciences 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/22118/1/IJMS%203%201%202014%2056%2064.pdf Othman, Normah and Chan, Swee Heng (2014) Direct writing assessment as a basis for teaching and learning in ESL classrooms in Malaysian secondary schools. International Journal of Management Sciences, 3 (1). pp. 56-64. ISSN 2310-2829 http://www.rassweb.com/wp-content/uploads/PDF/IJMS/Vol-3/Issue-1/Paper%205.pdf
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spellingShingle	LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools Othman, Normah Chan, Swee Heng Direct writing assessment as a basis for teaching and learning in ESL classrooms in Malaysian secondary schools
description	It is very important for ESL teachers to teach and provide feedback about their students’ performances in directed writing, summary writing and essay writing, which are given in the secondary school exit examination in Malaysia. This paper looks into how three ESL teachers assessed essay writing after teaching their students to write. An observation of how these teachers gave feedback to their students after assessing their writing was conducted.Each of the teachers was given one of these scoring methods to assess their students’ writing: holistic scoring method, analytic scoring method and primary trait scoring method.It was found that each scoring method provided a different basis for giving feedback to the students.This is because each scoring method looks at different aspects of the students’ writing performance.This paper discusses the differences found in the feedback lessons given by these three ESL teachers.
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author	Othman, Normah Chan, Swee Heng
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title	Direct writing assessment as a basis for teaching and learning in ESL classrooms in Malaysian secondary schools
title_short	Direct writing assessment as a basis for teaching and learning in ESL classrooms in Malaysian secondary schools
title_full	Direct writing assessment as a basis for teaching and learning in ESL classrooms in Malaysian secondary schools
title_fullStr	Direct writing assessment as a basis for teaching and learning in ESL classrooms in Malaysian secondary schools
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publisher	Research Academy of Social Sciences
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Direct writing assessment as a basis for teaching and learning in ESL classrooms in Malaysian secondary schools

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