Assessing Chinese learners of English : language constructs, consequences and conundrums /

"Assessing Chinese Learners of English gathers research from around the world to better understand a number of perennial issues in English language assessment of Chinese learners. Topics covered in this volume include the issues and challenges in the development and implementation of School-Bas...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Yu, Guoxing, 1971- (Editor), Jin, Yan, 1965- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
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  • Foreword; Cyril Weir
  • 1. Assessing Chinese learners of English
  • the language constructs, consequences and conundrums: An Introduction; Guoxing Yu and Yan JIN
  • 2. Implementing a learning-oriented approach within English Language assessment in Hong Kong schools: practices, issues and complexities; Liz Hamp-Lyons
  • 3. Contriving authentic interaction: Task implementation and engagement in school-based peer group speaking assessment in Hong Kong; Daniel M. K. Lam
  • 4. The impact of test mode on the use of communication strategies in the paired discussion task; Yan Jin and Lin Zhang
  • 5. Fact-to-face interaction in a speaking test: A corpus-based study of Chinese learners' basic spoken vocabulary; Shasha Xu
  • 6. Features of formulaic language used by Chinese EFL learners in their performance in a story-retelling assessment task; Lei Wang and Chan Chen
  • 7. Assessing incidental vocabulary learning by Chinese EFL learners; Chanchan Tang and Jeanine Treffers-Daller
  • 8. Chinese users' reactions to automated scoring of speech and validity implications; Xiaoming Xi, Jonathan Schmidgall and Yuan Wang
  • 9. Project-based group assessment in the second language classroom: Understanding university students' perceptions; David Qian
  • 10. The Chinese students' response to an assessment policy change: A case study; Qiuxian Chen and Lyn May
  • 11. Students' voices: What factors influence their English learning and test performance?; Ying Zheng
  • 12. Standard English or Chinese English? Native and non-native English teachers' perceptions; Ying Zhang
  • 13. The power of the General English Proficiency Test on the Taiwanese society and its tertiary English education; Shwu-wen Lin
  • 14. Twenty years of Cambridge English in China: Investigating the impact; Xiangdong Gu and Nick Saville.