配对(组)口语测试的社会性及其微观研究

The Social Dimension of the Paired Oral Tests and Its Microanalysis

受交际语言教学、批判语言学、社会语言学的影响,批判语言测试(Critical Language Testing)提出把语言测试置于更广阔的社会政治语境中,开始重视对语言测试的社会维度即测试的社会性以及测试带来的社会影响的研究。配对(组)口语测试是当今国内外口语测试中较为广泛应用的测试形式,具有鲜明的社会性。研究发现考生在考试过程中的表现和最后得分与诸多社会因素相关。本文着重分析配对(组)口语测试的社会性及其研究方法和现状,提出了今后配对(组)口语测试社会性研究的方向。

Influenced by and some of the theories the wave of communicative language teaching, critical discourse analysis in sociolinguistics, critical language testing shifted their research focus on the social dimension of language testing, insisting that the validity study of the language tests should be put in the social and political context, and efforts should be made on the study of the social dimension of language tests. Paired oral tests are one of the most popular oral test forms, and they are administered with the examiners and examinees face-to-face. Such tests are interactive and many social factors affect the test-takers＇ test performance, hence the test scores. This paper has a finegrained analysis of the nature of the paired oral tests, summarizes the main research method and the major research findings in terms of the social dimension of the tests, finally analyses the future research prospects of the tests.