English Language Education and Assessment: Recent Developments in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland

ISBN-13: 9789812870704 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 281 str.

Coniam

Opis

This volume gathers contributions in the closely linked fields of English language assessment and language education. The contributors from China and Hong Kong represent a mixture of established and new scholars. Areas covered in the language education section range across major developments in the redefining of Hong Kong s secondary and tertiary curricula, as well as the huge field of China s vocational education curriculum. Regarding assessment, the contributions reflect major changes in the marking of examinations in Hong Kong, whereby all examinations from 2012 onwards are marked onscreen, to quality control issues in the administration of China s College English Test, which is taken by over 10 million candidates every year."

Recenzje

"English Language Education and Assessment: Recent Development in Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland provides timely and instructive insights into how assessment is practiced in classrooms in both the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong. ... not only offers readers a general perspective on issues involved in English language teaching and assessment but also presents practices with strong local features. ... It also serves as an important stepping strong towards inspiring more studies in language education and assessment in the Chinese context." (Li Liu, Frontiers of Education in China, Vol. 10 (2), 2015)

Spis treści

Part I: Teaching, learning and curriculum perspectives  

1 Innovation in the New Senior Secondary English language curriculum: Learning English through popular culture
Phil BENSON and John PATKIN

2 Hong Kong secondary school English teachers’ beliefs and their influence on the implementation of Task-Based Language Teaching
Winnie Laifan CHAN

3 Implementing the innovative 2003 English Curriculum for Senior Secondary Schools in China: Teachers’ beliefs and practices
Wenfeng WANG

4 English language teaching in vocational senior secondary schools in mainland China   
Wen ZHAO

5 EFL teacher learning in the Chinese sociocultural context
Peiya GU

6 Genre in the teaching of English in Hong Kong: a perspective from systemic functional linguistics
Corinne MAXWELL-REID

7 How much do students benefit from attending private tutorial schools? A case study of the Hong Kong shadow education system
David CONIAM

8 Innovating in tertiary education: A course in language play  
Roger BERRY

9 Re-imagining literacy: English in Hong Kong’s new university curriculum         
Ken HYLAND

 Part II: Assessment perspectives     

10 The limits of language tests and language testing – challenges and opportunities facing the College English Test
Yan JIN

11 Scoring fairness in large-scale high-stakes English language testing: an examination of the National Matriculation English Test
Liying CHENG and Yi MEI

12 Putting rater confidence in its place: A qualitative investigation of raters’ perceptions on using Confidence Scoring in speaking tests
Tan JIN

13 Task-based language teaching and assessment in Chinese primary and secondary schools
Shaoqian LUO

14 Perspectives on Assessment for Learning in Hong Kong writing classrooms
Icy LEE and Peter FALVEY

15 Perspectives into the onscreen marking of English in Hong Kong
David CONIAM

16 Implementing innovation: a graded approach to English language testing in Hong Kong
Cameron SMART, Neil DRAVE and Jennifer SHIU

O autorze

David Coniam has been involved in different facets of English language teaching, teacher education and assessment in Hong Kong for over 30 years. He is currently Chair Professor of Curriculum and Assessment in the Faculty of Education & Human Development at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, where he is a teacher educator, working with teachers in Hong Kong primary and secondary schools. His main publication and research interests are in language assessment, language teaching methodology and computer assisted language learning.