中外评委对大学生英语演讲能力评价的差异

Native and nonnative judgements of Chinese learners' English public speaking ability,

本研究旨在探究中外评委对中国大学生英语演讲能力评价的差异。分析的材料为2004年“CCTV杯”全国英语演讲比赛半决赛中11名中外评委对96名选手的评分数据。统计结果表明,中外评委对96名选手的总体评价存在显著差异,但这一差异没有影响进入决赛的75%的选手。在决定有争议的25%的选手进入决赛时,外方评委评分的权重大于中方评委。访谈数据表明中外两方评委评分标准的侧重有差别。外方评委对影响意义的形式错误特别敏感,对回答问题、即兴演讲内容本身的连贯性比较关注,而对是否切题不十分介意;中方评委对不妨碍意义表达的低级语法错误、单个语音错误关注较多,对选手回答问题或即兴演讲中的不切题现象比较反感。

This paper reports a study on the differences in native and nonnative judgements of Chinese contestants' performances in an English speaking contest. The data f or analysis was from the Semi_final of 2004 “CCTV Cup” English Speaking Contes t i n which there were 96 contestants and 11 judges, including five native speakers and six nonnative speakers. The native judges are expatriates teaching English i n Chinese tertiary institutions while the nonnative judges are English professor s whose mother tongue is Chinese. The results show that native and nonnative jud ges did show significant differences in their average scores for the 96 contesta nts. However, such differences did not affect the outcome of the contest concern ing 75% of the semi_final winners. For the remaining 25% of the semi_final winne rs upon whom native and nonnative judges disagreed, native judgments weighed mor e than nonnative ones. The interviewing data indicated that native and nonnative judges differed principally in how they rated the linguistic forms and the cont ent of the contestants' performance.