College English teaching is shifting in its traditional teaching method to a Communicative approach. As a major means of assessing language teaching, has language testing made the change as well? Investigation shows t...College English teaching is shifting in its traditional teaching method to a Communicative approach. As a major means of assessing language teaching, has language testing made the change as well? Investigation shows that in many colleges and universities where communicative teaching approach is being practiced, the terminal assessment is the College English Test (CET). This paper attempts to validate CET for the purpose of testing a candidates communicative competence, upon which a university-based communicative test is proposed.展开更多
文摘College English teaching is shifting in its traditional teaching method to a Communicative approach. As a major means of assessing language teaching, has language testing made the change as well? Investigation shows that in many colleges and universities where communicative teaching approach is being practiced, the terminal assessment is the College English Test (CET). This paper attempts to validate CET for the purpose of testing a candidates communicative competence, upon which a university-based communicative test is proposed.