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Assessing EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World

Revealing the Unknown

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Editors:
  1. Abdelhamid Ahmed

    1. Faculty of Education, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt

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  2. Hassan Abouabdelkader

    1. Ecole Nationales Supérieure des Arts et Métiers, Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco

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  • Highlights issues and challenges that affect the assessment of EFL writing in the Arab world
  • Examines the Arab world, an area which is often neglected by EFL researchers
  • Provides practical guidance for teachers and researchers working with EFL students in this part of the world

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Assessment of EFL Writing in Some Arab World University Contexts: Issues and Challenges

    • Abdelhamid Ahmed
    Pages 1-19

  3. The Effect of Self-Assessment as a Revision Technique on Egyptian EFL Students’ Expository Essay Writing

    • Nehal Sadek
    Pages 21-52

  4. Topical Structure Analysis: Assessing First-Year Egyptian University Students’ Internal Coherence of Their EFL Writing

    • Noha Omaya Shabana
    Pages 53-78

  5. Moroccan EFL University Students’ Composing Skills in the Balance: Assessment Procedures and Outcomes

    • Soufiane Abouabdelkader
    Pages 79-109

  6. The Impact of Self and Peer Assessment on L2 Writing: The Case of Moodle Workshops

    • Abdelmajid Bouziane, Hicham Zyad
    Pages 111-135

  7. English Writing Assessment and the Arabic Speaker: A Qualitative Longitudinal Retrospective on Arabic-Speaking Medical Students in Qatar

    • Alan S. Weber
    Pages 137-162

  8. Investigating Assessment Literacy in Tunisia: The Case of EFL University Writing Teachers

    • Moez Athimni
    Pages 163-189

  9. EFL Assessment and the Construction of Positioned Writer Identities in Gulf University Students

    • Lelania Sperrazza
    Pages 191-220

  10. ELT Professors’ Perspectives on the Use of E-rubrics in an Academic Writing Class in a University in the UAE

    • Rana Raddawi, Neslihan Bilikozen
    Pages 221-260

  11. EFL Writing Assessment and Evaluation Rubrics in Yemen

    • Thikra K. Ghalib
    Pages 261-283

  12. Conclusion and Discussion

    • Hassan Abouabdelkader
    Pages 285-296

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 297-315
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About this book

This book empirically explores assessment of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) writing in different Arab world contexts at the university level, which often presents a challenge for teachers and students alike. Analysing a number of different practices throughout the chapters including peer assessment, self-assessment, e-rubrics and writing coherence, the authors highlight different issues and challenges that affect the assessment of EFL writing in the Arab world, and provide valuable insights into how it can be improved. This book is sure to become an important practical resource for practitioners, researchers, professors and graduate students working on EFL writing in this region.

Reviews

“Assessing EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World: Revealing the Unknown is a very important attempt to address writing assessment issues within the Arab context, a region that has not received the due attention in the literature.” (Dr. Atta Gebril, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, the American University in Cairo, Egypt)

“Overall, Assessing EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World: Revealing the Unknown offers a number of interesting papers and perspectives to explore the issues of writing assessment. The chapters collectively would take forward existing scholarship on writing assessment in the Arabic university context.” (Dr. Icy Lee, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt

    Abdelhamid Ahmed

  • Ecole Nationales SupĂ©rieure des Arts et MĂ©tiers, Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco

    Hassan Abouabdelkader

About the editors

Abdelhamid Ahmed is Assistant Professor of Education at the Faculty of Education at Helwan University, Egypt. He specialises in Applied Linguistics and TESOL.



Hassan Abouabdelkader is Professor of English at Moulay Ismail University, Morocco.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Assessing EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World

  • Book Subtitle: Revealing the Unknown

  • Editors: Abdelhamid Ahmed, Hassan Abouabdelkader

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64104-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64103-4Published: 15 February 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87724-2Published: 07 June 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64104-1Published: 02 February 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 315

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: English, Language Education, Higher Education, Applied Linguistics, Language Policy and Planning, Arabic

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