口语能力量表研究：以大学英语四、六级口语考试评分量表为例.pdfVIP

Abstract College English Test-Spoken English Test (CET-SET) is a large-scale computer- based oral assessment designed for non-English major college students. Taking CET-SET as an example, this study uses empirical ways to explore improvement on the English speaking rating scale. The study first made reviews on definition of oral proficiency, methods of speaking tests, categories of rating scales, and construction of rating scales as well as background and construction characteristics about widely influential spoken language proficiency scales. This study picked out six oral performance samples, divided into three pairs. The scores of samples had been pre-assigned by the experts from the CET-SET committee. Nine college English teachers were invited as raters in the structured interview to report on the oral performance of two test takers in one sample pair under the guidance of the researcher. When analyzing data, the researcher summarized the rating criteria adopted by raters and the discrepancies between those criteria mentioned above and the current CET- SET scale on the basis of summarizing the oral reports from raters. Besides, the researcher also made qualitative studies on analyzing the ordering of importance of different criteria and comparison of holistic and analytic rating. The findings of this study put forward suggestions on the improvement on the current CET-SET rating scale as below: integrating depth and richness, logic and coherence, communicative strategy, and task fulfillment into the curr