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Direct linkCheng, Liying; Rogers, W. Todd; Wang, Xiaoying – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2008
University instructors' classroom assessments play a central role in and inevitably influence their teaching and their students' learning. This paper reports on a comparative interview study conducted in a range of three ESL/EFL university contexts in Canada, Hong Kong and China. Six major aspects of ESL/EFL classroom assessment practices were…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Teaching Methods
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)
Download full textSun, Guangyong; Cheng, Liying – 2000
This paper discusses the implementation of communicative language teaching (CLT) methodology within the English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) context in the Peoples' Republic of China. It suggests investigating the context of an English language teaching program first, and then adapting the program to the Chinese context in order to more effectively…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation
Cheng, Liying – 1995
This paper summarizes research findings on academic reading obtained from a questionnaire, two reading tests, and a textbook analysis and discusses essential reading skills required of foreign language (FL) learners in carrying out their academic studies as well as the skills with which they have problems. Results revealed that the essential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Language Books, Functional Reading, Higher Education
Berman, Robert; Cheng, Liying – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2001
An English for academic purposes needs survey conducted at a Canadian university among first-year Bachelor's and Master's level students reveals native speakers (NS) and nonnative speakers (NNS) of English perceive that the language skills necessary for academic study are of different levels of difficulty. English language difficulties appear to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedMyles, Johanne; Cheng, Liying – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2003
Reports an interview study that addresses the social and cultural life of 12 nonnative English-speaking international graduate students in four areas: relationships with supervisors and friends, experiences as teaching assistants, communication with colleagues and friends, and social life. Results are illustrated with the students own words.…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries
