SECOND LANGUAGE STUDENTS' CONFIDENCE IN PRODUCING THE CORRECT ANSWER

Abstract

This paper is designed to assess
whether there was any relationship
between correctness in answering and
accuracy in judging the correctness /
incorrectness of the answers the students
wrote. To achieve this aim a test was
set and and inistered to 29 students
studying Physics in the Kiremt Programme
at Bahir Dar Teachers~ College. Every
student was required to indicate how sure
he was of the correctness of the answer
he / she gave to each item by writing one
number of the 5 point scale.
The results indicate that the
subjects neither rated 5 each of the
items they got correct nor 1 all those
items they were wrong in. The students'
conFidence ratings are discussed in terms
of Nonitor Hypothesis~ Fossilization~ and
teaching.