English Language Education and Assessment

Abstract

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 Jennifer SHIU