Research on Applying Formative Assessment to Developing College English Learning Strategies

Formative assessment is a progressive assessment, which provides students with an effective means to adjust their learning strategies and methods, improve their learning efficiency and achieve the desired learning effects. The research explores how to apply formative assessment to developing college English learning strategies by means of an experiment. The result shows formative assessment can, to a certain extent, promote the use of learning strategies and improve students' learning ability and proficiency.