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Zhao, Wen; Wang, Boran; Coniam, David; Xie, Bingxue – Language Testing in Asia, 2017
Background: The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) (Council of Europe 2001) has, over the past decade, come to be widely used as a reference tool for teaching, learning and assessment (Alderson 2002; North 2014). The focus of the current study is on scaling the China Standards of English (CSE) vocabulary descriptors for College English…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Guidelines, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hui, Du – International Education Journal, 2004
College English teaching in China aims at developing students' communicative competence, in which vocabulary size plays an important role. According to Basic Requirements in the College English Syllabus (1999), Chinese university students' vocabulary size should be 4,200 words. From investigation and a study of the research literature, the author…
Descriptors: College English, Foreign Countries, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)