Teaching Reading and Writing Beyond High-stakes Testing: A Case Study of a High School Teacher in China

* Very few English studies focus on Chinese literacy teaching, especially adolescents' reading and writing * Confronts a controversial theme that is frequently debated in today's global education field: how to nurture life-long readers and writers under high-stakes testing pressure * Multiple sources of data were collected, such as observational field notes, semi-structured and unstructured interviews, sample NCEE language arts test papers and site photos