Formative Assessment in Teaching English to Art Students
The article discusses issues of formative assessment of English skills applied to art students. The nature of students specializing in arts is tightly linked with creativity. Unfortunately, the formative assessment of students’ language skills does not very much reflect this fact, it is based on drill-type traditional tasks, and insufficient (if any) attention is paid to alternative assessment which would be able to develop students’ creativity. The goal of the article was to find out teachers’ and students’ views on formative assessment tasks motivating students majoring in arts specialties.
Keywords: formative assessment English language teaching, arts students, traditional assessment, alternative assessment
