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Publication details [#52242]

Meyer, Wilhelm H. 2009. 'When you just get a mark and a nasty comment, what's that called?' 'Summative assessment' Creating an enabling environment for formative assessment. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 27 (2) : 215–228.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

assessment | feedback | school | university | writing

Language as a subject

English, South African | isiXhosa

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper calls for an explicit focus on formative assessment in South African schooling, emphasizing its usefulness for English as an additional language university students in South Africa, and discussing a project -involving disadvantaged access students at the KwaZulu-Natal University- to increase understanding and usage of formative feedback on writing.