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50 Years of ERIC
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Examination Preparation or Effective Teaching: Conflicting Priorities in the Implementation of a Pedagogic Innovation
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Deng, Chunrao; Carless, David Robert – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2010
Communicative and task-based teaching hold central places in contemporary language pedagogy, yet their feasibility as pedagogic innovations in Chinese contexts remains open to question. Examinations are generally perceived as a particular factor militating against the implementation of communicative approaches. This study uses four case studies of…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Tests, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods