Writing Assessment

Authors

  • Jane Lockwood City University of Hong Kong Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/wap.v7i2-3.27788

Keywords:

testing, assessment, teaching, language

Abstract

Guest editorial

Author Biography

  • Jane Lockwood, City University of Hong Kong

    Jane Lockwood is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong. She completed her doctoral studies in workplace curriculum and assessment processes for workplaces and has recently completed a 3-year research project into the writing assessment needs of undergraduate students at Hong Kong universities called the Diagnostic English Language Tracking Assessment (DELTA). She has published widely in the area of language assessment for specific purposes.

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Published

2015-11-30

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Guest Editorial

How to Cite

Lockwood, J. (2015). Writing Assessment. Writing and Pedagogy, 7(2-3), 187-195. https://doi.org/10.1558/wap.v7i2-3.27788