4.1 Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages

-         - Students get to know their process of learning the language over a certain period of time.

-         - Students see for themselves their weak and good skills.

-          -Students can have an overall view of their peers and who to look for help if the teacher is not near.

-          -You can link your own assessment with this one to know in which skills your learners are lacking.

-        -  If you talk with the student after they finish their self-assessment, they will feel that doing this is a serious matter and will be more mature when doing it in the future.

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Disadvantages

-         - Students can have problems when doing this because they are not experts on evaluating.

-          -Students may feel that they have extra homework/exercises.

-        - Depending on the student they will give themselves a better grade that the one they really deserve.

-          -It can take a very large amount of time talking with each student about their self-assessment.