体裁视角下商务英语交际能力研究——以商务英语专业八级测试构念效度验证为例

A study of business English communicative competence from the perspective of genre--A case study of construct validation of TBEM8

本研究以2019年和2020年全国商务英语专业八级测试为例,借鉴系统功能语言学中的话语体裁理论,探讨中国外语教学情境下的商务英语交际能力。结合交际能力理论、语言测试理论、商务英语相关理论和《全国商务英语本科教学质量国家标准》,本研究首先构建能力模型,之后应用结构方程验证性因子分析对该模型进行构念效度验证,验证通过测得的语言能力与理论假设能力之间的关系。本研究的相关结果为探讨外语教学情境下商务英语交际能力培养和课程研究提供参考,也为商务英语测试和其它专业英语测试研究提供新的视角。

This study explores the communicative competence of business English in the context of foreign language teaching in China from the perspective of the discourse genre theory in systemic functional linguistics.With a combination of communicative competence theories,language assessment theories,business English theories and the National Criteria of Teaching Quality for Undergraduate Business English Majors,this study first constructs three competence models and then applies the confirmatory factor analysis of Structural Equation Modelling(SEM)to verify the construct validity based on the statistics of the scores of Chinese test takers of TBEM8 in 2019 and 2020.The results show the relation between the language proficiency and the language theory hypothesis,which can provide some suggestions for the cultivation of business English communicative competence and curriculum research in the context of foreign language teaching as well as a new perspective for the study of business English testing and other professional English tests.