Turkish teachers' practices of Assessment for learning in the English as a foreign language classroom

Journal of Language Teaching and Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 775-785

  Öz, Hüseyin ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Assessment for learning; English as a Foreign language (EFL) teachers; English language teaching; Monitoring; Scaffolding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903993821     PISSN: 17984769     EISSN: 20530684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jltr.5.4.775-785     Document Type: Article

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