Abstract
AbstractLanguage assessment literacy has emerged as an important area of research within the field of language testing and assessment, garnering increasing scholarly attention. However, the existing literature on language assessment literacy primarily focuses on teachers and administrators, while students, who sit at the heart of any assessment, are somewhat neglected. Consequently, our understanding of student language assessment literacy and its impact on learning remains limited. Moreover, previous language assessment literacy research has been predominantly situated in classroom assessment contexts, and relatively little scholarly attention has been directed to large-scale testing contexts. To address these gaps, this study investigated the role of language assessment literacy in students’ learning for the writing section of the Duolingo English Test (DET) through a netnographic approach. Twenty-three online videos posted by test takers were analyzed with reference to the existing conceptualizations to examine learners’ language assessment literacy of the DET writing section. Highlighting learners’ voices, we propose a new model relating writing assessment literacy to learning which has the potential to develop the learner-centered approach in language assessment literacy research. It elucidates the internal relationships among different dimensions of students’ language assessment literacy and their impacts on the learning of writing. We, therefore, discussed the findings of this study to argue for the importance of the transparency of assessment and the opportunities to learn provided by large-scale assessments, and to call for teachers' attention to students' language assessment literacy and understanding of the writing construct.
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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