The effect of portfolio assessment on English as a foreign language students’ paragraph writing at Biskra university

الملخص EN

Most EFL learners encounter many problems when writing.

this mixed- methods research aimed to investigate the effects of self-assessment through the use of portfolio on developing second-year EFL students' paragraph writing in terms of language use at Biskra university.

to achieve this goal, data were collected through a pre-questionnaire, a pre and posttests in addition to a post interview.

the results revealed the significant effect of the treatment based on the value of the t-test with a significant value which is less than p-value (0.05).

moreover, the qualitative findings supported the results obtained from the experiment.

this strategy proved not only to be successful in developing English as a foreign language (EFL) students' paragraph, but it develops their self-efficacy, cognitive and meta-cognitive skills as well.