Oral English Testing of English-Majors From the Perspective of Communicative Language Testing Theory

摘要

English testing plays an important role in language learning and teaching, serving as a guidance for teachers and students. A scientific and effective oral test will bring positive backwash effect on college English oral teaching. Different from the traditional language testing, communicative language testing emphasizes the social function of a language, and has been a heated topic and popular trend in language testing. Based on communicative language testing theory, this paper analyzes the present situation and main problems in the oral English Testing system for college students and explores the application of communicative language testing theory on college oral English testing for English-majors.