英语应用能力考试初探

An Initial Study of the Need of an English Proficiency Test in China

高校英语专业如何为社会培养更多、更好的毕业生,如何确实按国家预期的培养目标来测定其专业能力,乃是一个令人关注的问题。鉴于目前我国尚不存在一种科学测定英语人才培养目标标准的"英语能力考试",社会对英语专业毕业生的英语应用能力不甚了了。而高校英语专业又仅提供有关毕业生在校课程的成就考试成绩。为此,有必要探讨开发及建立我国的"英语能力考试",以测定达到培养标准的人才。

How to teach students to be communicatively competent in English as required in the educational plan and how to test them in their competence are two issues of public interest.The academic requirements are set for English majors at college;yet no test is applied to measure their proficiency of the language.On the other hand,colleges and universities provide only their results in course achievement tests.This article tries to argue for the need of a reliable,valid and practical English proficiency test which is able to tell whether the test-taker meets the requirements in the plan.