关于公安院校英语口语测试体系建设的几点思考

On the Construction of the Oral English Test System in Police Colleges and Universities

英语口语测试是对英语口语教学效果的有效检验和促进,是挖掘和培养英语人才的重要工具,公安院校应加强英语口语测试体系的建设。以北京警察学院的英语口语测试实践为例,比较分析了警院学期末口语测试与全国大学英语四六级口语测试的差异,讨论了传统情景对话题型的局限和看图对话新题型的效果,研究了公安基层单位对职业英语口语测试的需求,在此基础上,提出公安院校大学英语口语测试体系改革发展的新设想。

Through studying the example of the oral English tests in Beijing Police College,this paper proposed todevelop and reform the oral English test systems of police colleges and universities,based on the comparative analysisof the final oral English tests in Beijing Police College and the CET-SET,the examination of the limitations in thetraditional“situational conversation”test pattern and the test effectiveness of the new“conversation on pictures”testpattern,and also the investigation of the frontline police stations’demands for an occupational oral English test.