An investigation of the impact on Hong Kong's English language teaching profession of the Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers of English (LPATE)

An investigation of the impact on Hong Kong's English language teaching profession of the Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers of English (LPATE)

• Coniam, David The Education University of Hong Kong
• Falvey, Peter The Education University of Hong Kong
• Xiao, Yangyu The Education University of Hong Kong

RELC Journal, 48(1), 115-133, 2017

Sage Publications Ltd.

2017

• L 教育測量及評鑑
  • LE 公開考試、學歷檢定
• M 教師與教師教育
  • MH 教師評鑑︰教師效能

LPATE Language Proficiency Assessment English Teacher Standards

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 小學教育
• 中學教育

This study investigates the perceptions of stakeholders on the impact of a high-stakes assessment of English language teachers' proficiency – the minimum language standards Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers (English) [LPATE], which was introduced in 2000. Given that the test has now been in place for 17 years, the study investigates the extent to which the LPATE assessment has contributed to English language teacher standards in Hong Kong. Interview data from 24 participants in primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong, reveal a number of positive links between the LPATE test and English language teaching as a profession. The introduction of the LPATE was deemed to be necessary in terms of setting, raising and maintaining language proficiency standards; stakeholders' awareness that English teachers need to have high language standards, subject-matter knowledge and pedagogical skills related to English language teaching; and that now an increasing number of English teachers are exempt from the LPATE through having opted for relevant degrees and teacher training, questions should be asked about how and whether the LPATE should be used in more relevant and meaningful ways.
[Copyright © 2017 The Author(s).]

• 英文

期刊論文

• 00336882

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/289f1f54

2017-07-27