The Correlation Between Students' Self-Assessment in Listening and Listening Scores

Abstract

The purpose of the present research was to find out whether there was any correlation between students' self-assessment in listening and listening scores. The participants of this research were 46 students of English Department of Satya Wacana Christian University taking an Interpersonal Listening course. They were asked to fill in the questionnaires which had 3 parts: before listening, while listening, and after listening. The data for the research were from the questionnaires that were adapted from Chen's Exploring Taiwanese College Students' Strategy Development study with several adjustments to make it appropriate the gauge the self-assessment phenomenon. The result of the correlation shows that there was no significant correlation between students' self-assessment in listening and listening scores. The paper concludes with discussions of, and implication for, listening skill and implementing self-assessment for students.