Assessment of Students’ Writing Acquisition

Abstract

Writing is one of the essential language skills to be mastered by students to communicate appropriately in written forms. Nowadays, writing is becoming a vital skill for modern communication as an increasing number of people communicate in written forms using various communication technology. This study was conducted to analyse students’ writing abilities. An ex post facto research design was conducted to collect the data required for this study. A writing assessment was administered to the selected samples, and the data were analysed descriptively. This study found that students writing skills was at a sufficient level. It means several students are still experiencing difficulty in writing. Therefore, this study implied that students’ writing skills should continually develop to a higher level of acquisition

Practices of English Language Teachers in Assessing Junior High School Students’ Writing Performance

“…Moria et al (2018) state the assessment should be authentic to help language teachers better facilitate teaching and learning to improve students' writing ability. Maba (2022) believes that students' writing skills should be developed continuously until a higher level is achieved. This implies that teachers should also possess a higher level of analytical and assessment skills for their students' writing abilities, as reflected in the submitted writing outputs.…”