Language Proficiency Testing for Chinese as a Foreign Language: An Argument-Based Approach for Validating the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (Hsk)

By Florian Kagan Meyer

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 363164891X
• ISBN13: 9783631648919
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.4"