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Optimizing Teacher-Student Collaborative Assessment in the Production-Oriented Approach: A Dialectical Research

  • Shuguang Sun

    Shuguang Sun, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Beijing Sport University. Her research interests are language pedagogy, second language acquisition, and assessment.

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Abstract

Teacher-student collaborative assessment (TSCA) aims to address the challenges of responding to students’ work in the Production-Oriented Approach: low efficiency and poor effectiveness. As part of a bigger project carried out in a Chinese university over a period of three years, the present study explored how the teacher prepared and implemented TSCA in class, especially with a focus on how she determined the assessing objective and worked collaboratively with her students in class to achieve it, using the students’ written and translated texts as examples. By adopting the dialectical research (DR) method, this paper collected qualitative data such as teaching plans, classroom recordings, and reflective journals of the teacher-researcher (the author), along with students’ written drafts and translated texts. TSCA theory and classroom practice have been refined simultaneously by means of putting theory into practice and reflecting upon it. The optimized pre-class and in-class procedures may shed some light on applying TSCA to L2 classrooms.

About the author

Shuguang Sun

Shuguang Sun, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Beijing Sport University. Her research interests are language pedagogy, second language acquisition, and assessment.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Professor Wen Qiufang for her constructive comments and Vera Lee for her comprehensive editing that helped improve earlier drafts of this article. My sincere gratitude also goes to the reviewers, editors and copy editors for their valuable suggestions.

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Published Online: 2020-10-13
Published in Print: 2020-09-25

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