1. Look again at the situation described by Wen-Hsing. How would you have handled this situation? What other options were open to Wen-Hsing? What values would underlie these options?
2. What did you think about the story of Alison’s student in French? Would it be reasonable to apportion blame in this story? How else might it have been resolved?
3. What forms of evaluation do you use in your own teaching? What values underlie these kinds of evaluation?
4. What do you think we should be assessing in the testing of language learning? How can tests or other forms of assessments measure this? What problems are there?
5. To what extent should we as teachers be responsible not just for students’ learning but also their study habits, their behavior, and their values?
6. What, in your view, is a good student?
7. Liz Hamp-Lyons (1998) suggested that test preparation programs are ethically (morally) wrong. What is your view of this? Have you prepared students of your own for standardized tests such as the TOEFL? In light of your experiences, what do think of Hamp-Lyons’ arguments?
2. What did you think about the story of Alison’s student in French? Would it be reasonable to apportion blame in this story? How else might it have been resolved?
3. What forms of evaluation do you use in your own teaching? What values underlie these kinds of evaluation?
4. What do you think we should be assessing in the testing of language learning? How can tests or other forms of assessments measure this? What problems are there?
5. To what extent should we as teachers be responsible not just for students’ learning but also their study habits, their behavior, and their values?
6. What, in your view, is a good student?
7. Liz Hamp-Lyons (1998) suggested that test preparation programs are ethically (morally) wrong. What is your view of this? Have you prepared students of your own for standardized tests such as the TOEFL? In light of your experiences, what do think of Hamp-Lyons’ arguments?
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