交际英语口语测试的结构效度

The construct validity of oral test in communicative English language

口语测试是交际测试的重要组成部分,其目的是为了测试出受试者的口语语用能力。交际英语口语测试的结构概念是受试者在真实语境下口语交际能力。根据有效的交际理论设计口语测试,并保证口语测试能体现结构效度是口语测试设计者要完成的首要课题。本文通过分析交际英语口语测试的理论基础,提出了一些基本的实现口语测试结构效度的途径。

Oral test is an important part of the communicative test,and its purpose is to test testee’s oral pragmatic ability.The construct conception of oral test in communicative English language is the testee’s oral communicative ability in the real-life context.The first task for the oral test designer to fulfil is to design an oral test on the basis of the effective communicative theory so that the construct validity can be embodied by the oral test.This paper put forward some basic approaches to realize the construct validity of oral test by analyzing the theory groundwork of oral test in communicative English language.