Fwd: Questions about feedback on secondary school students' English essays

[Simon H WANG]

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From: <sls...@edb.gov.hk>
Date: Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 12:57 PM
Subject: Questions about feedback on secondary school students' English essays
To: Simon H WANG <simo...@hkbu.edu.hk>
Cc: <edb...@edb.gov.hk>

Dear Dr WANG

Thank you for your enquiry about the provision of feedback in the development of secondary school students' writing skills.

Kindly note that as feedback provision is part of the assessment process, you may find in the following curriculum documents (downloadable at http://www.edb.gov.hk/elecg) relevant information in Chapter 5 "Assessment", which provides a general direction on the formulation of an assessment policy in schools, describes different modes of assessment, and gives suggestions on conducting assessment in schools to enhance effectiveness of learning and teaching:

• English Language Education Key Learning Area Curriculum Guide (Primary 1 - Secondary 6) (2017)
• English Language Curriculum and Assessment Guide (Secondary 4 - 6) (2007) (with updates in November 2015)

With regard to offering feedback to students' writing, you may find relevant information in Chapter 4 "The Learning and Teaching of Writing" in the following curriculum document, also downloadable at http://www.edb.gov.hk/elecg:

• Supplement to the English Language Education Key Learning Area Curriculum Guide (Secondary 1 - 3) (2018)

Assessment literacy is one of the key emphases in the English Language Education curriculum. Resource materials (including exemplars and resource packages) and professional development programmes (PDPs) in this regard are provided for teachers to enhance their professional capacity and effectiveness of learning and teaching. For details, you may visit the following web pages:  

• Resource materials

https://www.edb.gov.hk/en/curriculum-development/kla/eng-edu/references-resources/resource%20sec_AaL.html

• PDPs

https://www.edb.gov.hk/en/curriculum-development/kla/eng-edu/professional-development-programmes/archive_2018_19.html

As for local schools' practices of offering feedback to students' writing, you may wish to know that schools may have different practices due to different school contexts and concerns in the  planning and implementation of their school-based English Language curriculum.

I hope the information is of use to you.

Regards
SL SHEL
Senior Curriculum Development Officer
English Language Education Section
Curriculum Development Institute
Education Bureau





From:        Simon H WANG <simo...@hkbu.edu.hk>
To:        edb...@edb.gov.hk
Date:        02/04/20 23:25
Subject:        Questions about feedback on secondary school students' English essays

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Dear Sir/Madam 
               I am writing to seek information about the Education Bureau's policies and guidelines regarding how secondary school teachers are expected to provide feedback on their students' English essays.  As the writing skills are tested in the DSE paper 2 and 3, it is important for students to receive feedback on their practice essays throughout the secondary school years.  Here are my questions:

1.  Could you please refer me to relevant documents and/or guidelines related to offering feedback to students' practice essays?  2. What information does the Bureau possess about the local schools' practices of offering feedback to students' English writing?  3. What support and resources are available from the Bureau in this regard? 

             Many thanks in advance for your information.  

Yours sincerely 
Simon Wang, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Language Centre 
Hong Kong Baptist University 
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong 
http://lc.hkbu.edu.hk/staff_simon.php  

Writing for the Public Project 
https://sites.google.com/a/hkbu.edu.hk/write4public/home

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