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Zheng, Ying; Cheng, Liying – Language Testing in Asia, 2018
This study examined the relationships between students' foreign language classroom anxiety and cognitive test anxiety and their College English Test Band 4 (CET-4) performance. A questionnaire was distributed to 921 Chinese university students to understand the nature and degree of the examined relationships. Follow-up interviews with 12 students…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Correlation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Song, Xiaomei; Cheng, Liying – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
Despite the fast growth of English immersion in China, only limited research has been conducted regarding immersion teachers' educational background, instructional contexts, professional development, and their perceptions about English immersion. This study explored the above key issues from three primary immersion schools. Results indicated that…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Immersion Programs, Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience
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Cheng, 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
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Sun, Guangyong; Cheng, Liying – TESL Canada Journal, 2002
Discusses the implementation of communicative language teaching methodology in the English-as-a-Foreign-Language context in one institution in China. Suggests that a preliminary stage of content-based communicative curriculum development is necessary. Such a stage aims to investigate the context of an English language teaching program, ad then…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Development, English (Second Language)
Sun, 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