Self-Assessment of Students’ Blog to Enhance Paragraph Writing

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to enhance paragraph writing by applying the self-assessment strategy to provide learners with opportunities to monitor, control, and assess their learning progress to become independent learners. The pedagogical innovation had positive results in the end, given the difficulties students had sorted throughout their years of studying a foreign language. They improved their writing skills by implementing strategies and techniques to be more organized with the initial ideas to finally polish them to present an attractive set of sentences with coherence. Thus, the self-assessment strategy implementation is crucial when the target is to improve writing paragraphs. Furthermore, the self-assessment strategy favored students with a better understanding of their learning path and helped them identify their weaknesses to make decisions that led them to succeed. In other words, they were more conscious and responsible for their knowledge. Although it was a hard-working process of introducing, explaining, and practicing the strategy to become a skill, they improved their writing abilities and the writing process to reach the established goals. Finally, it is a reality that teachers are always searching for new ways to improve writing skills and assist learners in displaying creativity in their writing tasks. Likewise, researchers investigate an efficacious methodology to enhance learners’ writing, especially in building paragraphs. In the future, this research will help others diminish the number of students with low grades in writing. It is essential to keep in mind that more research and innovations are required to assist learners in overcoming their difficulties in writing.