Developing oral presentation-related self-assessment among prospective teachers of German as a foreign language: Analysis of self-assessment comments

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Authors

VELIČKOVÁ Jana

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Pedagogicka orientace
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Web https://journals.muni.cz/pedor/issue/view/2315
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PedOr2022-4-410
Keywords student self-assessment; development of self-assessment skills; content analysis; German as a foreign language; teacher education
Description This paper presents a research study framed by a 12-week intervention programme to develop self-assessment skills focused on presenting in German among prospective teachers of German as a foreign language (n=15). The study examined the content (characteristics) of the participants’ self-assessment comments collected before and after the intervention program. A total of 25 self-assessment comments were collected using the “Lautes Erinnern” method (13 before the intervention, 12 after the intervention) and analysed using the inductive category formation of the qualitative content analysis. The analysis revealed three main characteristics of the development of self-assessment: increasing evidence in the self-assessment comments, a shift in focus from the predominance of non-languagespecific to language-specific assessment, and a shift in focus from mostly negative to also positive aspects of performance. The study concludes with a discussion of the implications for better teacher education that develops their self-assessment skills appropriately.
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