The Effect of Self-Assessment on EFL Students’ Writing Skill : The Case of Second Year LMD Students of English, University of Bejaia

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the effect of self-assessment on students’ writing skill. Students’ engagement into self-assessment was realized by adopting different self-assessment techniques in writing .For this purpose, our study was based on the experimental method or design to treat research problem, and the effect of self-assessment was studied on second year EFL students writing skill. The participants of this study were forty in number divided equally into two groups of twenty students. The first group was considered as the experimental group, who engaged in self-assessment activities for two months, whereas the control group depended on teacher assessment in assessing their compositions, i.e. they did not experience the aforementioned technique