My View on the CET Spoken English Test

• 作者: CHENLin-li
• 来源期刊: 中国科教博览
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: CET 英语 口语测试 学习方法 中国
• 年，卷（期）: 2005,（6）
• 页码范围: 37-39
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: H310.42

摘要

With the deepening of China's reform and open-door pohcy, the ability to participate mrectly m oral interactions in English becomes more and more important, hence the focus of English language teaching on improving students' oral English proficiency. The CET Spoken English Test (CET-SET), which is a face-to-face oral proficiency test, is a component part of the CET test. Since its first administration on a national scale in November 1999, it has been receiving a growing amount of attention from teachers and students in universities in China. As the number of studen tstaking the CET-SET is growing rapidly year by year, it has become crucial to develop an alternative to the CET-SET that can be operationally more practical. My views on the CET-SET are expounded in this paper, which is structured as follows. First, I provide an overview of the CET-SET. Next, I identify several aspects of the test that are amenable to changes. Finally, I put forward some suggestions as to the development of an alternative approach for the CET-SET.