Assessing Chinese Learners of English

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