LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TESTING FOR CHINESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE by Florian Kagan Meyer ( 9783631648919 )

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LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TESTING FOR CHINESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
AN ARGUMENT-BASED APPROACH FOR VALIDATING THE HANYU SHUIPING KAOSHI (HSK)

By:

Florian Kagan Meyer

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363164891X

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Publisher:

PETER LANG AG

Pub. date:

27 March, 2014

Series:

Language Testing and Evaluation 32

Pages:

349

Description:

How did the (old) Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) assess the Chinese proficiency of non-native speakers of Chinese? 30 years of research have been synthesized into an argument-based approach for validity for the HSK, finally yielding into an argument about the validity of the most widespread language proficiency test for Chinese as a foreign language.

Synopsis:

How did the (old) Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) assess the Chinese proficiency of non-native speakers of Chinese? What inferences can be derived from HSK test taker scores, especially from Western test takers? How difficult is it to learn Chinese according to the HSK? Thirty years of research have been synthesized into an argument-based approach for validating the most widespread test for Chinese as a foreign language. In addition, the author has analyzed the scores of a sample of over 250 German test takers in order to investigate how many hours German natives needed on average to study for reaching a specific HSK level. This work also extensively discusses validation theory for psychological testing, and it demonstrates how to put an argument-based approach to validation into practice.

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Switzerland

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Peter Lang AG

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