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Direct linkQian, 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)
Peer reviewedByrnes, 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
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)
Peer reviewedSpence-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
Peer reviewedYi'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
Peer reviewedWatanabe, Yoshinori – Language Testing, 1996
Presents a case study investigating whether there is any connection between university entrance examinations in English as a Second Language in Japan and the prevalence of grammar-translation teaching there. Findings reveal that teacher factors, such as educational background, personal beliefs, and teaching experience may outweigh the possible…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Entrance Examinations, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedPowers, Donald E. – Language Testing, 1986
Survey responses of faculty in six graduate study fields and undergraduate English faculty identified nine listening skills that they perceived as particularly important to academic success in lecture classes. Faculty believed that non-native English speakers had greater difficulty with listening activities. Research suggestions are presented…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Faculty, Construct Validity, English (Second Language)
