The proponents
of selfassessment strategies maintain that participating in selfassessment can help learners
become skilled judges of their own strengths and weaknesses and establish realistic and
attainable goals for themselves, thus developing their selfdirected language learning ability
(Chamot & O’Malley, 1994; Dickinson, 1987; Oscarson, 1997). A widely used instrument
for selfassessment is the portfolio