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Assessing Chinese Learners of English : Language Constructs, Consequences and Conundrums / / edited by Guoxing Yu, Yan Jin



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Titolo: Assessing Chinese Learners of English : Language Constructs, Consequences and Conundrums / / edited by Guoxing Yu, Yan Jin Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
Disciplina: 428.0071/051
Soggetto topico: Applied linguistics
Language and languages—Study and teaching
Sociolinguistics
Applied Linguistics
Language Teaching
Soggetto geografico: China Languages
Classificazione: LAN009000LAN020000
Persona (resp. second.): YuGuoxing
JinYan
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: This volume gathers researchers from around the world endeavouring to better understand a number of perennial issues in assessing Chinese learners of English, covering topics such as students' test performances, interactional competence and lexical knowledge, students' motivation, teachers' attitudes and assessment policy changes.
Titolo autorizzato: Assessing Chinese Learners of English  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-137-44978-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910253341603321
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