An Integrated-Skills Test Design for Non-English Major Undergraduate Students

摘要

Every year,the freshmen come to the university.The university will organize them to take a placement test.The school of foreign studies will provide a test for them.This paper is concerned with a test set by teachers for the freshmen.The aim is to provide guidelines for setting a kind of test which will be practical and give helpful information to both teachers and students about the usual test.It is assumed that the teacher’s aim is to equip his students with a general knowledge of grammar and vocabulary and in the long run with the skills that they will need when they graduate and work in an actual situation.So,based on our background,needs analysis,reference and interview,it is decided that our test will be an integrated-skills one of both proficiency and placement test types which consists of listening,reading,and writing.