声明
Abstract
摘要
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background of the study
1.1.1 Current Situation of Writing Instruction in Higher Vocational College
1.1.2 Teaching Objeetives for Higher Vocational College(2000)
1.2 Significance and Purpose of the Study
1.2.1 Significance of the Study
1.2.2 Purpose of the Study
1.3 Research Questions
1.4 Structure of the thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Theoretical Foundations of the Study
2.1.1 Humanism
2.1.2 Multiple intelligence theory
2.1.3 Construetivism Theory
2.1.4 Krashen’s Affeetive Filter Hypothesis
2.1.5 Error Analysis Theory
2.1.6 Metaeognition psychology
2.2 Overview of Portfolios
2.2.1 History of Portfolios
2.2.2 Definition of Portfolio
2.3.3 Types of Portfolio
2.2.4 Features of Portfolio
2.2.5 Content of Portfolio
2.3 Overview of Writing Assessment
2.3.1 History of English Writing Assessment
2.3.2 Comparison between Formative Assessment and Summative Assessment
2.3.3 Significance of Assessment
2.4 Advantages and Disadvantages of Portfolio-based Assessment
2.4.1 Advantages of Portfolio-based Assessment
2.4.2 Disadvantages of Portfolio-based Assessment
2.5 Recent Studies of Portfolio-based Writing Assessment
2.6 Summary and Innovations
Chapter 3 Methodology and Research Design
3.1 Research Questions
3.2 Description of Subjects
3.3 Research Instruments
3.3.1 Pilot Study
3.3.2 Questionnaires
3.3.3 Writing Tests
3.3.4 Interviews
3.3.5 Self-,Peer-and Teacher-assessment Checklists
3.4 The Experiment
3.4.1 Pretest Stage
3.4.2 Implementation Stage
3.4.3 Posttest Stage
3.5 Experimental Class Design
3.6 Data Collection and Analysis Method
Chapter 4 Results and Discussion
4.1 Data Collection and Quantitative Analysis
4.2.1 Data Collection and Analysis for Research Question Ⅰ
4.1.2 Data Collection and Analysis for Research Question Ⅱ
4.1.3 Data Collection and Analysis for Research Question Ⅲ
4.2 Qualitative Data from Interviews
4.2.1 Data Collected from InterviewⅠ
4.2.2 Data Collected from InterviewⅡ
Chapter 5 Conclusions,Implications and Recommendations
5.1 Conclusions of the research
5.2 Implications
5.3 Recommendations
Bibliography
Appendix
Appendix Ⅰ
Appendix Ⅱ
Appendix Ⅲ
Appendix Ⅳ
Appendix Ⅴ
Appendix Ⅵ
Appendix Ⅶ
Appendix Ⅷ
Appendix Ⅸ
Appendix Ⅹ
Acknowledgements