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MECHANISM ADOPTED BY THE PUBLICLY-FUNDED UNIVERSITIES TO ASSESS STUDENTS' STANDARD IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE LANGUAGES

Institution

CUHK

CityU

HKBU

Details of mechanism adopted by the institution to assess students' standard in English and Chinese languages

Credit-bearing Courses

Annex B

As a formal mechanism for assessing the language standards of students who take the credit-bearing elective language proficiency courses and the language courses required by Faculties, they have to sit for and pass the examinations for the courses before they can eam the credits. Students who fall the examinations have to take the courses again and re-sit for the examinations.

Non-credit-bearing Courses

It is planned that students have to sit for and pass the examinations for the compulsory enhancement courses on English, Cantonese and Putonghua which are being planned for introduction in the University. The intensive courses will not be credit-bearing but the University will consider recording the results of the examinations in the students' transcripts.

Credit-bearing Courses

Language modules are offered as part of the undergraduate curricula as appropriate and are credit-bearing. Each module has its own assessment method, for example, by coursework and/or examination which is related to the specific objectives of the module rather than to overall language proficiency. Students are required to pass all modules, including these language modules, before they can progress or graduate. Students may need to fulfil pre-requisite requirement before they are allowed to take another language module and they should obtain a pass in the module for successful completion of the course they enrolled in. At present, there is no exit Chinese or English requirement as such.

Non-credit-bearing Courses

All language enhancement courses organized by the Language Institute are non-credit- bearing but students are required to take achievement tests at the end of the course.

Credit-bearing Courses

There is on-going assessment, through the reading/writing assignments, written projects, oral presentation, written tests, etc for students taking the required credit- bearing language courses. Fimal examinations are also required for most of these courses. Though students who fail in any of the required language subjects are still