Teaching strategies – 5 Using learner assessment for writing tasks

Some refl ection on the matter, however, will disclose that successful learners routinely monitor and assess their own language learning and progress (self-assessment). They also observe the language interactions of peers to pick up new ideas, identify mistakes to avoid, or to compare their own abilities with those of fellow learners (peer assessment). In reality, successful learners are already assessing their own efforts both in class and in the ‘real world’. This informal monitoring can be made explicit and formalised in the classroom as a bona fi de learning tool for all learners.