Teaching ESL

OPTIONS IN WRITING ASSESSMENT : AN EXPLORATION Introduction I would like to start by raising a few questions : 1st. What direction should assessment of writing take ? 2nd. Should it assess samples of daily work such as a journal entries or portfolio writing? 3rd. Or is the notion of general assessment completely out of synchronization with the mega-trends in education where assessment and response to writing have become revolutionary ? I will attempt to answer these questions as …

…learn more than they can when attempting to decipher teacher-written commentary on their own. Meeting individually with students is one of the most valuable services a teacher can perform. In the context of assessment and response to student writing one-on-one conferences round out the process of discovering the needs of students, especially the first conference. Sommer (1989) further suggests that, the teacher should arrange to meet with students one-on-one after the latter have completed writing samples.