Chinese as a Second Language Assessment

✍ Scribed by Dongbo Zhang, Chin-Hsi Lin (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Singapore
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 304
Series: Chinese Language Learning Sciences
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book brings together 13 original research papers that address emerging issues in the assessment of Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) in five major areas, including standards in CSL assessment; development of CSL tests; assessment of diverse knowledge and skills; computer-supported assessment; and CSL assessment in relation to instruction and teachers’ assessment competence. It goes beyond the psychometric testing of Chinese and provides cutting-edge examinations of the interfaces of assessment with sociology of language, acquisition, pedagogy, and modern technologies, as well as teacher education. Given its unique features and broad range of topics, the book offers an intriguing and valuable resource, not only for scholars and researchers but also teacher educators and assessment practitioners who are directly or indirectly involved in CSL assessment.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK): Past, Present, and Future....Pages 3-19
The Development of the Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language (TOCFL)....Pages 21-41
Assessing Chinese in the USA: An Overview of Major Tests....Pages 43-65
Developments in Research on Testing Chinese as a Second Language....Pages 67-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
How Ethnic Minority Students Perceive Patterns in Chinese Characters: Knowledge of Character Components and Structures....Pages 91-113
Developing a Word Associates Test to Assess L2 Chinese Learners’ Vocabulary Depth....Pages 115-140
Can Grammatical Knowledge Predict Chinese Proficiency?....Pages 141-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
What Standard and Whose Standard: Issues in the Development of Chinese Proficiency Descriptors in Singapore....Pages 159-181
Diagnostic Assessment of L2 Chinese Learners’ Reading Comprehension Ability....Pages 183-202
Exploring the Relationship Between Raters’ Personality Traits and Rating Severity in Writing Assessment of Chinese as a Second Language: A Pilot Study....Pages 203-223
Computer-Mediated Corrective Feedback in Chinese as a Second Language Writing: Learners’ Perspectives....Pages 225-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Developing a Speaking Diagnostic Tool for Teachers to Differentiate Instruction for Young Learners of Chinese....Pages 249-270
Self- and Peer Assessment of Oral Presentation in Advanced Chinese Classrooms: An Exploratory Study....Pages 271-286
Back Matter....Pages 287-293

✦ Subjects

Language Education;Chinese;Assessment, Testing and Evaluation

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