形成性评估与自主学习能力的培养

Formative Assessment and the Cultivation of Autonomous Learning Ability

自主学习能力的培养已成为大学英语教学的一个主要目标,然而,传统的终结性评估阻碍了这一目标的实现。对形成性评估和自主学习的理论进行分析,阐述二者间的关系,并讨论了如何在外语教学中应用形成性评估促进学习者自主学习能力的提高。

The cultivation of autonomous learning ability has become a major goal of college English teaching. However,the realization of this objective is obstructed by the traditional summative assess-ment. By analyzing the theories of formative assessment and autonomous learning,this paper elabo-rates their relationship between the two components,and discusses how to carry out the formative as-sessment in foreign language teaching for the purpose of improving learners’autonomous learning a-bility.