Open AccessComparing PETS and GEPT in China and Taiwan
Author(s) -
Mei Wu
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
english language teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1916-4750
pISSN - 1916-4742
DOI - 10.5539/elt.v5n6p48
Subject(s) - psychology , mainland china , test (biology) , china , mathematics education , medical education , geography , medicine , paleontology , archaeology , biology
This paper compares the Public English Test System (PETS) administered in mainland, China and the General English Proficiency Test (GEPT) administered in Taiwan, from the aspects of test levels, test contents and scoring weight. Compared with the PETS, the GEPT is found to value the English productive skills more, and have a greater ability to discriminate the beginner or intermediate learners from the advanced learners