English Language Education and Assessment

David Coniam has been involved in different facets of English language teaching, teacher education and assessment in Hong Kong for over 30 years. He is currently Chair Professor of Curriculum and Assessment in the Faculty of Education & Human Development at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, where he is a teacher educator, working with teachers in Hong Kong primary and secondary schools. His main publication and research interests are in language assessment, language teaching methodology and computer assisted language learning.

"English Language Education and Assessment: Recent Development in Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland provides timely and instructive insights into how assessment is practiced in classrooms in both the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong. ... not only offers readers a general perspective on issues involved in English language teaching and assessment but also presents practices with strong local features. ... It also serves as an important stepping strong towards inspiring more studies in language education and assessment in the Chinese context." (Li Liu, Frontiers of Education in China, Vol. 10 (2), 2015)

• 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.