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Sharpling, Gerard (2004) Intercultural issues in testing Chinese students' writing. English Language Teacher Education and Development, 8 . pp. 66-82. ISSN 1365-3741.
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Abstract
This paper looks at some of the inter-cultural issues involved in testing the writing
proficiency of Chinese students applying for undergraduate and graduate programmes
at the University of Warwick, UK, and other British universities. An inter-cultural
understanding of the language testing experience, though rarely pursued within the
language testing literature, is useful for two reasons. Firstly, a better understanding of
what learners and teachers of another culture think about English language tests
written within English-speaking countries is helpful for those teachers and examiners
who are unfamiliar with that culture. Secondly, as a general principle, writing
assessors need to become more actively involved in a process of inter-cultural
dialogue, so that they better understand the students they are assessing. This involves
an exchange of views with a variety of professional people from other cultures, as
well as their own.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | English Language Teacher Education and Development | ||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick | ||||
ISSN: | 1365-3741 | ||||
Official Date: | 1 September 2004 | ||||
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Volume: | 8 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 66-82 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
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