From the perspective of test methods, this paper revisits the communicative testing features reflected in the Revised Syllabus of the BEC Handbook (2002) by carrying out detailed analyses of the Sample Listening of BE...From the perspective of test methods, this paper revisits the communicative testing features reflected in the Revised Syllabus of the BEC Handbook (2002) by carrying out detailed analyses of the Sample Listening of BEC Vantage. A table of the Sample Listening is then constructed by using Bachman's framework of test methods (1999). From the table and a layout of its components, this paper explicates the five communicative testing features embodied in the Revised BEC: authenticity, contextualization, communicativeness, overall ability and holistic, qualitative scoring method.展开更多
文摘From the perspective of test methods, this paper revisits the communicative testing features reflected in the Revised Syllabus of the BEC Handbook (2002) by carrying out detailed analyses of the Sample Listening of BEC Vantage. A table of the Sample Listening is then constructed by using Bachman's framework of test methods (1999). From the table and a layout of its components, this paper explicates the five communicative testing features embodied in the Revised BEC: authenticity, contextualization, communicativeness, overall ability and holistic, qualitative scoring method.
