THE EFFECT OF USING LEARNING LOGS AS A SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL ON THE SYNTACTIC DEVELOPMENT AMONG IRANIAN PRE-INTERMEDIATE EFL LEARNERS

Recently, there has been focus on self-assessment and its effect on students’ Learning. Many techniques have been cited for self-assessment. This research attempts to find out, if learning logs as a self-assessment tool has any significant effect on syntactic development. To this end, a standardized proficiency test was conducted on 90 pre-intermediate learners at Amin and Parsa language Institutes in Shahrood. Among them 60 learners who scored one standard deviation above and one standard deviation below the mean were selected. Then they were randomly divided into two groups of 30. Before this research was conducted, a pretest was given to the participants and the treatment followed afterwards. After the treatment, the posttest was conducted. Finally the analysis of t-test was used to find the statistical answer for the above mentioned question and this research indicated that, the experimental group has better results and such kind of activity should be used within a curriculum during the course of study