What is English for Tourism

This chapter presents the results of a preliminary study which consisted of (1) the design, and (2) preliminary testing of a series of automated assessment tools, which were used in a virtual course of English for Tourism, level B2, to promote students' learning autonomy and self-evaluation. These rubrics were used to assess two activities: a writing task, where students had to create an audio description script of a touristic video, and an oral task, where students had to record themselves and produce their own audio described sequence of the selected clip. Then, for each task they had to assess themselves by filling in two corresponding rubrics. These rubrics were also used by the tutors to assess the same tasks. After that, the results of the rubrics were compared. The preliminary results show that the rubrics helped students obtain better feedback and develop a more accurate sense of their own progress.