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Oral English Test in Middle School: Current Situation and Strategies Abstract: Oral English is becoming more and more important to both teaching and learning, which requires effective methods to assess and test oral English. This essay analyzes the current situation of oral testing in middle school and focus on the eight strategies to solve the problems in oral testing. It aims at investigating students’ current study situation and work out the English language oral assessment for middle school students. Key words: oral English test current situation strategies Current situation about oral English test Usually, English teachers pay more attention on testing their students’ ability of language comprehension than language production. They often use listening or writing test forms to classify the students’ level. Students’ communicating ability is frequently ignored. In fact, language production is more difficult to study than language comprehension. Note that communicating is used in the sense of conveying information. Communicating ability really shows how well the students master the language. Oral tests can just be managed to test students’ language production as well as the communicating ability. Nowadays, more and more teachers and students aware the importance of communication. Teachers use various teaching methods to encourage their students to speak English to have real communication. They also have the aware of arranging oral tests to judge the students’ communicative ability. However they are failure to obtain the accurate information of the students’ real English level because of many respects. The following situations commonly and obviously existed in the oral testing in middle school. \ 1 the unreasonable testing formats Usually we adopt these three formats of oral English test: achievement tests, diagnostic tests and placement tests. Teachers use diagnostic tests more often than achievement tests and placement tests in order to identify student