An ESL teacher has English language learners maintain a daily learning log. Each day students write about new concepts and words they learned in the day's lessons and how the new concepts and words relate to those learned in previous lessons. Which of the following additional learning log tasks would most effectively promote the students' self-assessment of their content-area learning?
  1. Students look up in a dictionary each new word from the day's lessons and write a definition and sample sentence for each word.
  2. Students work with a partner to edit their learning log entry for grammatical errors and then rewrite the entry using correct grammar.
  3. Students record questions they still have about lesson material and describe learning strategies they used during the day's lessons.
  4. Students transfer the new concepts and words they wrote about in their learning log to index cards to be used in studying for class tests.
Explanation
Correct Response: C. Asking students to self-assess their content-area learning helps them take ownership of what and how they learn. Having students record questions they still have about lesson material and describe learning strategies they used during the day's lessons are self-assessment strategies that encourage reflection and self-monitoring, and thus promote students' ability to evaluate their own areas of strength and need with respect to the content and skills associated with a given lesson. A and B are incorrect because these strategies do not promote students' awareness or self- assessment of their learning with respect to a lesson's content-area objectives but rather focus on developing or reinforcing students' vocabulary development (A) and grammatical competence (B). D is incorrect because transferring the new concepts and words to index cards to be used in studying for class tests is a test-preparation strategy. It does not promote students' self-assessment of their content- area learning because it does not encourage them to further reflect on their learning but rather to simply recall it.
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