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Qian, David D. – Language Testing, 2008
English has been an official language of Hong Kong since it was first introduced to the region in the 1840s. Since then, its influence has invariably been strong and remains so even after 1997, when the sovereignty of the region was returned to China. This special background of English in Hong Kong heavily influences the policy and practices of…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Language Tests, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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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)