Self and teacher assessment as predictors of proficiency levels of Turkish EFL learners

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 67-80

  Ünaldı, İhsan ^a  

^a GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

foreign language proficiency; self assessment; teacher assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952630688     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2014.980223     Document Type: Article

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