The Role of Evaluation in Second Language Teaching

Resumen

In the second language teaching and learning process, evaluation is not just a final score but data collection research to help learners transition on their way to reach the target language. This process is an overrated concept whose purpose is to provide students with the necessary tools to embrace their language developmental sequence. The evaluation process involves determining factors such as teaching-learning strategies, learning environment, teaching methodologies, and cognitive targets. This study uses the method of comparison and analysis to state the relevance between the learning process and scoring as the final stage of evaluation, whose results are used as feedback to provide comfort and awareness to develop competence and performance during the teaching of the language. The findings of this research revealed that the evaluation purpose ends up being individually featured by each educator, and due to this, the learning process is compromised by three different factors which are the educator's ethics, the methodology of the course, and the group’s performance. In the light of the results, a set of recommendations is addressed for future language teachers as a recommendation to overthink the evaluation process.