英语专业口语测试及其对口语教学的反拨作用

Spoken English Testing and Teaching for English Majors

口语测试是语言测试中的一个重要内容,它是在真实的或接近于真实的语境中,通过完成实际任务,测定考生运用语言的能力,其特点是真实性和交互性。口语测试的重要性在于它对口语教学所具有的极其重要的反拨作用。通过分析口语教学和口语测试的关系以及根据英语专业口语教学的目标及现状,我们为不同水平或不同年级的考生设置了不同的测试任务,从而体现出口语测试具有的良好的反拨作用。

Spoken English test, an important component of language testing, is to test, through accomplishing real task, students’ communicative competence in an authentic or closely authentic context. Authenticity and interactivity are the two distinct characteristics of it. What spoken English test weighs in spoken English teaching is its backwash effect. After analyzing the relationship between spoken English teaching and testing, we set corresponding tasks for different testees according to the present teaching goals and conditions for the English majors. Thus, the beneficial backwash effect will be exerted to its utmost degree.