Assessing EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World

Abdelhamid Ahmed is Assistant Professor of Education at the Faculty of Education at Helwan University, Egypt. He specialises in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. Hassan Abouabdelkader is Professor of English at Moulay Ismail University, Morocco.

Chapter 1. Assessment of EFL Writing in Some Arab World University Contexts: Issues and Challenges; Abdelhamid Ahmed.- Chapter 2. The Effect of Self-Assessment as a Revision Technique on Egyptian EFL Students' Expository Essay Writing; Nehal Sadek.- Chapter 3. Topical Structure Analysis: Assessing First-Year  Egyptian University Students' Internal Coherence of  Their EFL Writing; Noha Omaya Shabana.- Chapter 4. Moroccan EFL University Students' Composing Skills in the Balance: Assessment Procedures and Outcomes; Soufiane Abouabdelkader.- Chapter 5. The Impact of Self and Peer Assessment on L2 Writing: The Case of Moodle Workshops; Abdelmajid Bouziane and Hicham Zyad.- Chapter 6. English Writing Assessment and the Arabic Speaker: A Qualitative Longitudinal Retrospective on  Arabic-Speaking Medical Students in Qatar; Alan S. Weber.- Chapter 7. Investigating Assessment Literacy in Tunisia: The Case of EFL University Writing Teachers; Moez Athimni.- Chapter 8. EFL Assessment and the Construction of Positioned Writer Identities in Gulf University Students; Lelania Sperrazza.- Chapter 9. ELT Professors' Perspectives on the Use of E-rubrics in an Academic Writing Class in a University in the UAE; Rana Raddawi and Neslihan Bilikozen.- Chapter 10. EFL Writing Assessment and Evaluation  Rubrics in Yemen;Thikra Kaed Ghalib.- Chapter 11. Conclusion; Hassan Abouabdelkader.