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Qian, David D. – Language Testing, 2008
English has been an official language of Hong Kong since it was first introduced to the region in the 1840s. Since then, its influence has invariably been strong and remains so even after 1997, when the sovereignty of the region was returned to China. This special background of English in Hong Kong heavily influences the policy and practices of…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Language Tests, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Byrnes, Heidi – Language Testing, 2002
Explores the role of task and task-based assessment in a collegiate foreign language department that shifted its entire undergraduate curriculum from a form-based normative approach to a language-use and language-meaning orientation for instruction. Examines how demands for specificity that characterize task-based assessment contributed…
Descriptors: Departments, Evaluation Methods, German, Higher Education
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Cheng, Liying; Rogers, Todd; Hu, Huiqin – Language Testing, 2004
Student assessment plays a central and important role in teaching and learning. Teachers devote a large part of their preparation time to creating instruments and observation procedures, marking, recording, and synthesizing results in informal and formal reports in their daily teaching. A number of studies of the assessment practices used by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, English (Second Language)
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Spence-Brown, Robyn – Language Testing, 2001
Explores theoretical and practical issues surrounding authenticity in course-based assessment, drawing on data from a university-level Japanese language course in Australia. Examines a teaching and assessment activity based around interviewing native speakers outside the classroom, which was designed to optimize authenticity. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Yi'an, Wu – Language Testing, 1998
Investigated the test-taking processes of English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) testees taking a multiple choice listening-comprehension test, evaluating the effectiveness of immediate retrospection for accessing such processes. Linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge was activated in a parallel manner for all subjects with input of various…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods