Self-Assessment of English as a Foreign Language Learning in a Distance Tandem Setting

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  • Suzi Marques Spatti Cavalari UNESP ##default.groups.name.author##

Keywords:

self-assessment, tandem language teaching and learning

Abstract

This work aims at discussing the characteristics of self-assessment process in a tandem language learning setting. It is the presentation of a study in which the data were collected by a Brazilian participant (learner of English as a foreign language) during her interactions via chat with two North American teletandem (TELLES, 2005) partners (learners of Portuguese as a foreign language). The analysis focused on the learning goals and strategies in relation to the parameters and criteria defined by the Brazilian learner in her self-assessment process.

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Feb-Wed-2012