English Language Education and Assessment

<p>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 JenniferSHIU.</p>