Teachers’ and students’ attitudes toward formative assessment and feedback in teaching English for Academic purposes EAP

Assessment and feedback are central to learning and teaching and are essential components for to any extent further development after they are approached appropriately. Traditionally, assessing students‟ progress in any subject and providing feedback as a mirrored image of that progress is often varied. The present study mainly focuses on how formative assessment, because the most useful sort of assessment, is seen as a good contributor to the educational and teaching process especially when it s followed by real formative feedback. it s assumed that both formative assessment and formative feedback have an amazing influence on what students learn and the way teachers teach. This study will investigate such an influence through a collected 50 questionnaires--37 for the scholars and 13 for the teachers, Hormozgan, Iran, where English is taught for tutorial purposes (EAP).

Keywords:

English for Academic Purposes , formative assessment , summative assessment , feedback