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 Kongs secondary and tertiary curricula, as well as the huge field of Chinas 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 Chinas College English Test, which is taken by over 10 million candidates every year.
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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)
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 Kongs 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 JenniferSHIU.
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.
