Inflated proficiency self-assessment and its potential impact on language teaching: A Taiwan-based study involving teachers of English in elementary school settings

Abstract

The article presents a study conducted on Taiwanese elementary school teachers teaching English language. As mentioned, teachers have less proficiency than their counterparts in Europe and even in Japan, they believe they are much more proficient than they actually are. The study concluded that the approach to use the target language at all times might lead to some negative consequences rather than the positive ones.