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 Jennifer SHIU
About the Author: 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.