Book review: An example of students who can self-assess themselves and work autonomously, by Juan Carlos Araujo Portugal

Abstract

The book An example of students who can self-assess themselves and work autonomously by Juan Carlos Araujo Portugal centers around the author's empirical research on learner self-assessment and autonomous work. Self-assessment and learner autonomy are described as crucial concepts in technology-enhanced language learning by the author. Using a mixed-methods approach, Portugal delves into the learning process of his own students from an English teacher-researcher perspective. He focuses on exploring the following issues: the accuracy of his students' self-assessment of their English competence (their strengths and weaknesses) in light of their final marks, his students' uptake of the information on their weaknesses (whether they take action to improve them or not), and student perceptions of whether they have become more autonomous learners in the specific technologyenhanced learning setup and how they might have achieved that. Portugal used qualitative methods to investigate his students' ability to self-assess their strengths and weaknesses in English and a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze their learner autonomy manifested in the use of the course wiki. The instruments he used were the student self-assessment reports, the final exam grades,