PRETCO的反拨作用给高职院校公共英语测试的启示

The enlightenment to public English examination′s reform in higher vocational colleges given by the backwash of PRETCO

PRETCO的反拨作用对高职院校的英语教学既有积极的促进作用,也有负面的影响。如何最大限度地减少其负面的反拨作用,充分发挥其正面的良好的反拨作用,这是当前高职院校公共英语测试改革需要关注的一个重要课题。在高职院校校内公共英语测试中增加口语测试的项目,以全面衡量学生的英语应用能力,使得高职学生重视英语口语技能的学习,注重英语口语能力的培养,以保证学以致用。

The backwash of PRETCO has both positive and negative effects on the English teaching in higher vocational colleges. How to minimize the negative backwash and give full play to the positive one is the important subject in the public English test reform in higher vocational colleges. It proposed that an spoken English test should be added to the public English test in higher vocational colleges so as to measure students＇ English comprehensive application abilities, make them value English spoken skills and the cultivation of this ability, with the purpose of meeting the practical needs of English learning.