An Investigation of the Effect of Different Feedback-based Assessments on Oral Performance and Attitudes of Iranian EFL Learners

Feedback is a core component of the learning process which has three levels: teacher feedback, peer feedback and self-feedback. The role received considerable attention from second language acquisition (SLA) researchers for past decades. Assessment another factor in improving learning. present study an attempt to investigate compare effects feedback-based assessment, self-feedback-based assessment on oral performance EFL Iranian learners also learners’ attitudes toward them. assessments’ rubric criteria used this was based 14 points scale Yamashiro Johnson (1997). participants comprised 84 TEFL students. A mixed method experimentation design followed with between-groups comparison independent groups have been compared by phase looking students’ views through attitude survey. This descriptive statistics, Pearson product moment correlation, one-way ANOVA post hoc test. results revealed that group performed significantly better than other two performance.