SEEU Review vol. 6 Nr. 2 (pdf) - South East European University

Elena Spirovska, MSc.; Hajrulla Hajrullai; Luiza Zeqiri, MA.; Serdal Xhemali; VeronikaKareva, MSc.; Artan Limani, MA.writings. Also, students are able to express their ideas more clearly inwriting and to get clarification on any comments that teachers have made.Finally, teachers can use conferencing to assist students with any specificproblems related to their writing. The teacher may later compare theparagraphs and check the improvement of every individual.There is another writing assessment which teachers choose, according toCurrier (2005), is the holistic evaluation. Although several forms of writingassessment are readily available, many teachers choose holistic evaluationbecause of its effectiveness in establishing overall writing ability. Holisticevaluation involves reading a paper quickly in order to gain a broadimpression of a writer's skill. In contrast, analytic scoring involves anitemized analysis and is commonly used to identify weaknesses in a student'swriting.Research MethodologyFor the purpose of this study around 200 students attending English forSpecific Purposes courses from the Faculties of Computer Sciences,Communication Sciences, and Legal Studies took this questionnaire. Theyare second year students who already completed Basic Skills English courses(levels 3 and 4, which correspond to intermediate level of Englishproficiency). Students attending Academic English and Advanced AcademicEnglish courses, who are first year students who were tested at advancedlevel of proficiency at the placement test, also filled out the questionnaireand belong to the sample described above. Most of the above mentionedgroups are consisted of students who are between 19-22 years old, both maleand female. In terms of ethnicity and native language, the groups are amixture of Albanians, Macedonians, Turkish, Roma and students from otherbackgrounds. The questionnaire contained fifteen questions and students hadto take the questionnaire online in the LARC (Language AcquisitionResource Center). The questions were designed in Likert scale methodtherefore answers varied from strongly agree to strongly disagree.182