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The relationship between self-assessment and speaking skill of junior high school students in Tehran

كارشناسي ارشد

آموزش زبان انگليسي

92/10/23

شهين شيخ

نرجس بانو صبوري

self-assessment , speaking skill , self-evaluation , self-monitoring , critical thinking , intrinsic motivation

شيخ،شهين , صبوري،نرجس بانو

This research studied the relationship between self-assessment and speaking skill of junior high school students in Tehran. The purpose of this research was to investigate whether learners were able to reliably assess their own speaking skill or not. Fifty participants were selected by assigning an OPT test. The students were asked to answer the questionnaire developed by Oskarson (1978) and Oxford (1990).This questionnaire consisted of 37 items. Then an interview was run. This interview was based on the questions of the TOEIC test. The researcher and the teacher used components of the speaking scale developed by Farhadi, Birjandi and Jafarpoor (1995).For obtaining the inter-rater reliability, Pearson Correlation Coefficient was used. Then this test was run to investigate whether there was any relationship between self-assessment and speaking skill. The results of the research revealed that there was considerable relationship between speaking skill and self-assessment. The findings also revealed that there was no relationship among pronunciation, structure, comprehensibility of speaking skill and self-assessment. The study could have implications for English language teachers,

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