Assessing Chinese Learners of English : Language Constructs, Consequences and Conundrums /: Language Constructs, Consequences and Conundrums. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Guoxing Yu, Yan Jin.
• Editors: Yu, Guoxing; Jin, Yan
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 428.0071/051; English language -- Study and teaching -- Chinese speakers; English language -- Ability testing; English language -- Conversation and phrase books -- Chinese; Second language acquisition -- Methodology; English language -- Acquisition -- Methodology; Linguistics; Language learning: specific skills; Language teaching & learning (other than ELT); English language; English language -- Ability testing; English language -- Study and teaching -- Chinese speakers; Language and languages; Second language acquisition -- Methodology; China -- Languages; China; Electronic books; Conversation and phrase books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137449795; 1137449799
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