论交际语言测试

On communicative language testing

交际语言测试已成为当今的主流测试方法。文章回顾了语言测试的四个时期,论述了交际语言测试的理论模式以及优缺点,并从效度重于信度的角度指出它应当被推行;同时提出在我国目前的情况下,测试模式应采用以交际语言测试为主,多种测试题型并存的综合性测试。

Communicative Language Testing(CLT) has become the mainstream testing method. This paper elaborates the theoretical model and the merits and demerits of CLT after reviewing the four stages of language testing. From the standpoint that validity is more important than reliability in language testing, the paper concludes that CLT should be implemented. The paper proposes that language testing in our country under the present circumstances should be an integration of all the other language testing approaches on the basis of CLT.