In the era of the 4th industrial revolution, creativity plays a pivotal role in the competitiveness of a country. The importance of creativity education therefore cannot be overemphasized. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of discussion-based English reading and writing activities on Korean high school students' creativity, English writing, and self-assessed creative thinking. The participants were 45 high school students in Seoul, Korea. They were divided into two groups: the discussion-based English reading and writing group (n=24) and the traditional English instruction group (n=21). The experiment was administered during two semesters of the 2017 academic year. The major findings are as follows: First, the experimental group showed significant improvement on the creativity test, especially in the areas of fluency, flexibility, and original thinking. Second, the experimental group outperformed the control group on the writing test. Third, the experimental group showed positive changes in their self-assessed flexible thinking, convergent thinking, and intrinsic motivation. All of these indicate the beneficial effects of the discussion-based English reading and writing activities. Based on the results, some pedagogical suggestions were made for the effective integration of creativity education into the teaching of English as a foreign language.

The present study attempts to provide empirical and qualitative evidence to support the feasibility of rubric-referenced self-assessment to promote learning in a Korean high school EFL context. Over four rubric-referenced self-assessment lessons, with the help of a teacher’s instructions, students wrote a first draft and assessed it using a scoring rubric. Drawing on this self-assessment, they wrote a second draft, also followed by a self-assessment as well as a self-assessment diary. As quantitative data, the scores of the first draft of the first class were compared with those of the second draft of the fourth class. Survey questionnaires, interviews, self-assessment diaries, and essay self-assessments served as qualitative data. The findings are, first, rubric-referenced self-assessment showed positive effects on students’ writing quality. Second, students came to perceive the effectiveness of rubric-referenced self-assessment. Lastly, rubric-referenced self-assessment positively influenced students’ learning strategies and attitudes. These results imply that rubric-referenced self-assessment promotes learning in a Korean high school EFL context, leading students to become self-regulated learners that take responsibility for their own learning.

This study examines how native English speaking (NES) and Korean non-native English speaking (KNES) teachers assess L2 writing performance. More specifically, this study aims to investigate whether these two groups of raters evaluate writing samples differently when using different rating scales (holistic vs. analytic) and different task types (narrative vs. argumentative). Four NES and four KNES raters evaluated 78 narrative and 78 argumentative essays written by Korean EFL university students using both holistic and analytic rating rubrics. The comparison between the two rater groups indicated that the scores given by the two groups were statistically significantly different for both holistic and analytic ratings regardless of the two task types investigated. Overall, KNES teachers rated the essays more harshly than their NES counterparts, irrespective of task type and rating scale. Multiple regression analysis of five analytic sub-criteria revealed that the two rater groups demonstrated similar patterns in assessing argumentative essays, while for narrative essays, the relative influence of each analytic sub-criterion on overall writing quality differed for the two rater groups. Implications for L2 writing assessment are included.

As writing skill is considered important in globalised societies nowadays, the skill is taught and assessed in English classrooms in Korea. As for assessment, however, there are no authoritative rating schemes suggested for classroom testing contexts. Given this lack, this study investigates the applicability of one of the existing scales, the FCE rating scale for writing assessment, to Korean high school contexts through both theoretical considerations and an empirical study. From both the theoretical perspectives and the empirical study, in which three English teachers at Korean high schools were asked to assess 6 writing samples using the FCE scale and to do think-aloud during the assessment, it was found that the FCE scale in this context tends to cause problems for the validity of the assessment. It was, therefore, concluded that, for the sake of validity, this kind of scale cannot be applied to the context for which it was not developed, and that there is a need to develop a rating scale, taking into account the characteristics of test-takers, raters and assessment context in question.

이 연구의 목적은 글 유형에 따른 예비교사의 평가 특성을 분석하여 교원 양성 과정에서의 구체적인 평가자 교육 방안을 제안하는 것이다. 이를 위해 2015년, 2016년, 2017년, 2019년에 국내 사범 대학에 재학 중이었던 예비교사 133명으로부터 설명문 40편과 논설문 40편에 대한 평가 결과를 수집한 후 글 유형에 따른 평가자의 엄격성 및 일관성, 평가자와 글 유형 간 편향의 특징을 살펴보았다. 이 연구의 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 예비교사의 엄격성은 글 유형에 따라 크게 변하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 예비교사의 일관성 수준은 글 유형에 따라 크게 변하지 않는 것으로 나타 났지만, 일부 예비교사는 글 유형에 관계없이 부적합이나 과적합 경향을 보이거나, 특정 글 유형에 부적합 혹은 과적합 경향을 보이는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 예비교사 중 약 1/3은 특정 글 유형에 편향을 보이는 것으로 나타났다. 이 결과를 바탕으로 교원 양성 과정에서의 다루어야 할 평가자 교육 방안을 제시하였다.

이 연구는 현직 및 예비 국어교사의 쓰기 평가 태도의 양상을 살펴보고, 그 차이를 분석하였 다. 이를 위해 선행 연구에서 개발된 쓰기 평가 태도 검사도구를 현직(33명) 및 예비 국어교사 (80명) 총 113명에게 투입하여 쓰기 평가 태도에 대한 반응을 수집하였다. 이를 바탕으로 쓰기 평가 태도에 대한 기술통계량 및 집단 간 차이의 통계적 유의성을 살펴보았다. 그 결과 현직 국어교사에 비해 예비 국어교사의 쓰기 평가 태도가 상대적으로 높았으나, 두 집단의 쓰기 평 가 태도는 모두 척도 평균보다 낮았다. 한편 쓰기 평가 태도 하위 요인 및 하위 요인의 각 문 항에 대한 집단 간 차이에서 쓰기 평가에 대한 경험과 관련된 요인 및 문항에서만 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 나타났다. 이를 통해 쓰기 평가의 경험이 쓰기 평가 태도에 영향을 미치는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 하지만 그 영향이 부정적이라는 점에서 긍정적인 쓰기 평가 태도 형성을 위 한 다양한 프로그램의 마련의 필요성을 확인할 수 있었다.