The impact of pupil-set targets on achievement in speaking:
An Action Research project involving a mixed-sex Year 9 German class
Jenny Turner
Secondary PGCE (Modern Foreign Languages) 2009.
jent@cantab.net
Abstract
This study considers the practice and viability of pupils using AfL to set and assess their own and their peers’ oral attainment in German lessons and thus to determine whether there is a particular method of target-setting which particularly benefits the development of speaking skills. The study demonstrates that whilst there is a clear link between perception of ability, enjoyment and actual speaking ability; together with awareness of a language ‘roadmap’, students also need a co-ordinated approach to the process of self/peer assessment and target-setting and that this process needs to be entrenched within a whole-school L2L approach to be of most benefit.
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Citation: Turner, J. (2010) The impact of pupil-set targets on achievement in speaking: An Action Research project involving a mixed-sex Year 9 German class. Journal of Trainee Teacher Educational Research, Volume 1, pp.1-34. (Downloaded from http://jotter.educ.cam.ac.uk/, [date of access])