Author(s)

Chunmei Wu

Corresponding Author

Chunmei Wu

Abstract

With the rapid development of science and technology, high-qualified postgraduates are badly needed. However, a multitude of problems exist in the current situation of postgraduate English teaching, which greatly affects learners’ learning effect. It is found authentic assessment can help improve this situation. Not only can it inspire and promote learners, but also ultimately exert great influence on learners’ enthusiasm as well as their confidence. Authentic assessment can be seen as an all-round yardstick to fairly evaluate learners’ learning outcome. Authentic assessment serves as a good feedback to both the students and the teachers, in which case they can check their learning and teaching timely and make amendments accordingly so that the improvement of the teaching quality can be guaranteed. It is urged that authentic assessment should be applied more in the future.

Keywords

Postgraduate English teaching, Authentic assessment system