从广播新闻与报纸新闻的差异看英语专业八级考试新闻广播测试部分选材

Material Selection of TEM-8's News Broadcast Section Seen from the Differences between Broadcast News and Newspaper News

最近几年有的八级考题使用了报纸新闻来检测学生理解新闻广播的能力。广播新闻与报纸新闻因传播形式不同在句型、数据和引语处理等方面存在诸多差别。这些差别将对考生的听力理解产生影响。本文通过分析比较广播新闻和报纸新闻的差异和相关研究说明英语专业八级考试的新闻广播测试部分不宜使用报纸新闻作为素材。命题人员应严格把好选材关,严格选择广播新闻而非报纸新闻来作为八级考试新闻广播测试部分的素材以使八级考试的测试内容更趋专业化和合理化。

In recent years, newspaper news was used in TEM - 8 to test students＇ ability to understand broadcast news. Broadcast news differs from newspaper news in terms of sentence pattern , the treatment of figures and quotes, etc. And these differences will affect test takers＇listening comprehension. This article illustrates that newspaper news isn＇t suitable for the News Broadcast section of TEM - 8 through the analysis of the differences between broadcast news and newspaper news and a related survey. Test - designers are expected to strictly select radio news materials in the News Broadcast section to make TEM - 8 more professional and rational.