Best Research Award

Sponsored by TCS iON

State University of Londrina
In recent years, with the increase in research on the assessment of and for language learning by children, there has been an urgent need to deepen studies related to teacher literacy in this area. Likewise, understanding formative assessment as an effective way to develop student learning, we sought to study the contributions of self-assessment in this context. As a way to reach as many English teachers as possible in Brazil, we decided to develop an ebook entitled “Self-assessment for kids learning English: a theoretical-practical guide for teachers” with the objective of supporting these teachers to promote children's learning by bringing basic concepts and principles, step-by-step rubric creation and examples of activities that stimulate learning reflection and monitoring. Using a bottom-up perspective, the methodology used the application of questionnaires and the implementation of an extension course. The data collected was extremely relevant to create a product consistent with the difficulties experienced by the participants who demonstrated in their speeches the lack of time, limited literacy experiences in language teaching for children, lack of access to certain materials, among others.