This book reports in detail the newly developed Communicative Listening Comprehension Test (CLCT) for the National College English Test (CET) of China. Followin

Based on two corpora: LOCNESS (Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays) and MLC (Non-English major Mainland Chinese Learner Corpus), this book explores the gram

This book focuses on the assessment of English language writing in China mainland, the territories of Hong Kong and Macau, and Taiwan. The first part of the boo

Intensification plays a major role in spoken and written interaction, enabling the writer or speaker to express different levels of commitment. This book explor

Public discourse constitutes the language environment of a town or a city, which forms part of the social environment of a country or a region. Based on extensi