Language Proficiency Testing for Chinese as a Foreign Language

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.

Autorentext

Florian Meyer studied Sinology, Communication Science and Korean at Free University Berlin, and Chinese at Peking University. He worked as a lecturer for Modern Chinese at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), where he studied Language Teaching Research and completed his PhD.

Inhalt

Contents: Language testing for Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) Language proficiency Language ability Language competence Language testing theory Validity theory Language test validation Argument-based approach for validity Chinese competencies German or Western learners Chinese competences.