英、汉日常生活用语中的歧义现象

Authenticity in business English assessment

歧义是一种独特的语言现象，造成歧义现象的因素有很多。本文首先介绍了歧义的定义，然後从语音和句法结构两个层面对英、汉日常生活用语的歧义现象进行描述，以便使我们能够具体而生动地认识语言结构及其运行规律，了解语言各层面之间的关系，并能按照语言的规律去学习语言，从而使我们体会到语言运用的复杂性、重要性以及语言运用的微妙和精确表物达情之难。

Authenticity is an important issue in language testing. Business English （BE） assessment should focus more on authenticity in order to reflect the characteristics and changing teaching methods of BE. This paper explores the idea of authenticity and uses real examples to show how to set criteria, and how to design authentic tasks to achieve authentic BE assessment.