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

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

Editat de David Coniam
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 iul 2014
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789812870704
ISBN-10: 9812870709
Pagini: 281
Ilustrații: XIII, 281 p. 10 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:2014
Editura: Springer Nature Singapore
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Singapore, Singapore

Public țintă

Research

Cuprins

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 JenniferSHIU.

Recenzii

“English Language Education and Assessment: RecentDevelopment in Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland provides timely and instructiveinsights into how assessment is practiced in classrooms in both the Chinesemainland and Hong Kong. … not only offers readers a general perspective onissues involved in English language teaching and assessment but also presentspractices with strong local features. … It also serves as an important steppingstrong towards inspiring more studies in language education and assessment inthe Chinese context.” (Li Liu, Frontiers of Education in China, Vol. 10 (2),2015)

Notă biografică

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.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

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.

Caracteristici

Records the considerable developments in terms of innovations in English language assessment and education in the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong Ranges across major developments in the redefining of Hong Kong’s secondary and tertiary curriculums as well as the huge field of China’s vocational educational curriculum Reflects the major changes in Hong Kong’s recent examination reform as well as quality control issues in the administration of China’s national English language tests Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras