Assessing EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World Revealing the Unknown

This book empirically explores assessment of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) writing in different Arab world contexts at the university level, which often presents a challenge for teachers and students alike. Analysing a number of different practices throughout the chapters including peer assessment, self-assessment, e-rubrics and writing coherence, the authors highlight different issues and challenges that affect the assessment of EFL writing in the Arab world, and provide valuable insights into how it can be improved. This book is sure to become an important practical resource for practitioners, researchers, professors and graduate students working on EFL writing in this region.

Info autore

Abdelhamid Ahmed is Assistant Professor of Education at the Faculty of Education at Helwan University, Egypt. He specialises in Applied Linguistics and TESOL.



Hassan Abouabdelkader is Professor of English at Moulay Ismail University, Morocco.

Riassunto

Highlights issues and challenges that affect the assessment of EFL writing in the Arab world



Examines the Arab world, an area which is often neglected by EFL researchers


Provides practical guidance for teachers and researchers working with EFL students in this part of the world

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Abdelhamid Ahmed (Editore), Hassan Abouabdelkader (Editore), Abdelhami Ahmed (Editore), Abouabdelkader (Editore), Abouabdelkader (Editore)
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.2019
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica tedesca; letteratura in lingua tedesca
• EAN: 9783319877242
• ISBN: 978-3-31-987724-2
• Numero di pagine: 315
• Illustrazioni: XXIII, 315 p. 15 illus., 7 illus. in color.
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14.9 x 2 x 21.1 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 448 g
• Categorie: B, Soziolinguistik, Linguistics, English, Germanische und Skandinavische Sprachen, English Language, Arabic, Sociolinguistics, Social Sciences, Applied Linguistics, higher education, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Language Education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Language and education, Language Policy and Planning, Language policy, Language teaching & learning, Arabic language, Afro-Asiatic languages, Afroasiatische Sprachen